By The Associated Press
About 1,700 Hawaii National Guard soldiers are preparing to come home this summer from their Middle East deployment.
The 29th Brigade Combat Team is expected home in August. Officials haven’t said when the unit will leave their Kuwait base.
The soldiers were sent to Kuwait for nine months to provide security for U.S. installations […]

By Amanda Nalley / Tallahassee Democrat
“Any load, any where. Drive it like you stole it,” shouted the 67 men and women of the Florida Army National Guard 144th Transportation Company of Marianna before being released for lunch during a deployment ceremony Sunday at the Max L. Thomas National Guard Armory in Marianna.
The group will be […]

By David Davis / Cleveland Daily Banner
Jessica Vines of Madisonville waited with spouses, other immediate family members and friends Friday afternoon at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Chattanooga as the 591st Transportation Detachment returned from a 12-month deployment in Iraq.
“This is my first and hopefully my last deployment for awhile,” Jessica said. “It has […]

Kansas National Guard soldiers from Clay Center are preparing to deploy to Egypt to supervise the implementation of the Egyptian-Israeli Treaty of Peace.
About 425 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery and a subordinate unit from Clay Center, the 250th Forward Support Battalion, will make the trip.
The Guard soldiers are now conducting pre-mobilization training […]

By Barbara S. Rothschild / Courier-Post
After the fireworks of July Fourth, South Jersey was the setting for a very special parade on Sunday.
To celebrate the recent return of New Jersey National Guard members who had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan — the largest deployment of the state National Guard since World War II — […]

Fifteen hundred members of the Vermont Army Guard have finally gotten the official notice:  They’ll deploy to Afghanistan early next year.  Their mission is to train Afghan security forces.  They’ll be part of the 10,000 soldier Task Force Phoenix, commanded by Colonel Will Roy of the Vermont Guard.
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By Kari Petrie / St. Cloud Times
With their training done, 550 Minnesota National Guard soldiers are waiting to go to Iraq where they’ll provide convoy security.
The members of the 1st Battalion, 151st Field Artillery are ready for their yearlong deployment to Iraq. Their commander, Lt. Col. Scott St. Sauver of Pierz, spoke to reporters Friday […]

By The Associated Press
About 1,700 Hawaii National Guard soldiers are preparing to come home this summer from their Middle East deployment.

The 29th Brigade Combat Team is expected home in August. Officials haven’t said when the unit will leave their Kuwait base.
The soldiers were sent to Kuwait for nine months to provide security for U.S. installations […]

By Keith Eldridge / KOMO news
Thousands of soldiers are are getting ready to head overseas as a part of the Army base’s largest deployment since the Korean War.
The 5th Stryker brigade will head to Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama’s troop surge, and additional troops will deploy to Iraq.
By fall,18,000 troops are already in […]

By Doug Harlow / Kennebec Journal Morning Sentinel
Drawing on her 10 years in the Maine Army National Guard and a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, Capt. Lisa Sessions, at age 28, is a no-nonsense kind of soldier. Sessions, of Windham, commands the 136th Engineer Co. of the 133rd Engineer Battalion, with headquarters at […]