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Sep-25-2008 » Filed Under: 56th SBCT

There have been a number of articles re: the recent mobilization of the 56th SBCT (PA NG), including this one by the Altoona Mirror. Excerpt:

TYRONE - The members of Detachment One, Charlie Company, Second Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment were greeted by rousing applause and a flurry of flags Wednesday as they marched past saluting veterans onto Gray-Veterans Memorial Field.

''This is a stop on the road to liberty,'' Lt. Col. Samuel Hayes III said as he thanked the hundreds who packed the bleachers to honor the 69 citizen soldiers of the Pennsylvania National Guard, part of the 56th Stryker Brigade.

The soldiers leave today, bound for Baghdad, after a few months of additional training at stateside bases.


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