Army Pfc. Calvin T. Wynn has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson. Airborne combat team members included soldiers assigned to one of six battalions and regiments of the 25th Infantry Division.

The airborne brigade served in three eastern provinces of Afghanistan which included the Paktya, Paktika, and Khost. Some of the challenges the brigade soldiers faced included poverty, unemployment, security, and management of natural resources and government institutions. Soldiers improved roads, provided vocational training in construction and civics, improved and re-opened 29 schools, remodeled six medical clinics, and improved three district courthouses.

While deployed in Afghanistan, Wynn was decorated with the Army Commendation Medal, Combat Action Badge, and promoted to private first class.

Wynn, a signal support systems specialist, is assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment. He has more than one year of service.

His wife, Laporsha, is the daughter of Portier D. King, and Lawanda Sherrer of Washington.

The private is a 2005 graduate of Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School.