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By BRAD RHEN, Lebanon Daily News
As many as 6,000 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen could be deployed to Iraq at the same time next year.
The 2,000-member 28th Combat Aviation Brigade received an alert order late last year for a possible one-year deployment to Iraq, according to Capt. Cory Angell, a National Guard spokesman.
The aviation brigade received the alert order shortly after the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team received a similar order in late October.
“We anticipate the Stryker brigade will go at the end of the year, and then a few months after that, we anticipate the aviation brigade will go,” Angell said.
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The 3,500-member Stryker brigade is headquartered in Philadelphia and has units scattered in communities across the state, including Lebanon and Fort Indiantown Gap. The centerpieces of the brigade are the more than 300 Stryker vehicles — 19-ton, eight-wheeled armored vehicles that can travel up to 75 mph.
Because of the resources poured into transforming the brigade into a Stryker brigade — about $1.5 billion and 85 construction projects across the state — most in the brigade realized it would be deployed soon after it was certified as combat-ready, Angell said.
“We anticipated that as soon as we reached initial operating capability, we would be deployed,” said Angell, who likely will deploy with the Stryker brigade. “All the money, the training the brigade’s been doing, all the equipment they’ve received, I think all the soldiers felt that when we got validated, we’d get a mission.”
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Comments For "6,000 Guardsmen put on alert for Iraq assignment":
See you guys in Taji Iraq,this coming year!
Posted by: chris naugle | April 23, 2008 12:32 PM