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Butler Guard unit heads to Gulf Coast on Mission Unknown

Sep- 6-2005 » Filed Under: 56th SBCT

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By Timothy McNulty, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

LONDON, Ky. -- Forty-two soldiers lugged body armor, rifles and water onto a charter bus outside Butler yesterday, following the hard path south of thousands of other troops going to the hurricane disaster area.

Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, Stryker Brigade Combat Team, has done disaster work before, clearing snow for emergency vehicles in the 1993 East Coast blizzard, and humanitarian missions, providing security in Kosovo.

Obviously, given the likelihood of thousands dead at their destination, Hurricane Katrina will be another matter.

The mission is part disaster relief, part security, but all unknown. Alpha Company members think they are going to New Orleans, via Mississippi. [...]


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