Arkansas National Guard Members Alerted For Possible Duty In Iraq
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Arkansas Army National Guard said
today that 50 of its members were alerted for possible duty in
Iraq.
The soldiers of the Second Battalion, 114th Aviation, are part
of a larger plan announced by the Department of Defense that
rotates US troops in the region. They have not yet received a
deployment order.
The group`s primary mission is to provide air traffic control
for military aircraft. About 20 soldiers from Company D of the
114th Aviation has already been deployed to Kosovo to provide air
traffic control for the Fourth Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry
Regiment.
The alert comes after three-thousand Army National Guard members
from 47 Arkansas units left for Fort Hood, Texas, last week for
eventual deployment to Iraq.
Roughly 4,200 soldiers and airmen from the Arkansas
National Guard are now on active duty in the United States, Cuba,
Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
