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176 Pa. MPs get sendoff
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 5:13:18 EDT
Posted : Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 5:13:18 EDT
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — More Pennsylvania troops are headed to the Middle East.
One-hundred-seventy-six members of the 320th Military Police Battalion, headquartered in Ashley, will depart Wednesday for mobilization and then a 12-month deployment to Iraq.
The soldiers got a sendoff Tuesday as some 600 friends, relatives, dignitaries and well-wishers gathered at Genetti’s Hotel and Convention Center in Wilkes-Barre for an official departure ceremony.
The commander, Lt. Col. G. Scott Carlson, said the 320th Military Police Battalion provides command and control to military theaters.
Once in Iraq, Carlson said, the soldiers will be joined by nine other military police battalions from across the U.S., with nearly 1,400 soldiers serving altogether.
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