Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | 10:15 a.m.
Gov. Jim Gibbons was due back in the state late Wednesday or early Thursday after a weeklong overseas trip that included military briefings and visits with Nevada troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The trip also included a visit to the military hospital at Landstuhl, Germany, where soliders wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq are taken for treatment.
Gibbons made the trip, organized by the Pentagon, with governors of Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri and Texas.
More than 800 Nevada National Guard members are stationed in Afghanistan, and about 150 other guard members from the state are in Iraq, where Gibbons went in May 2008 on a similar trip.
Gibbons was a combat pilot during the Vietnam War and a reconnaissance pilot during the first Gulf War. He retired from the Nevada Air Guard in late 1994.
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