ATLANTA - Published reports say Georgia Army National Guard soldiers heading to Iraq next spring - including about 150 from Gainesville - should have all the armor they need, according to their commander.
After recent complaints from some soldiers in Kuwait about a shortage of armor protection, Brigadier General Stewart Rodeheaver, who returned last week from a two-week fact-finding mission to Kuwait and Iraq, said that all of the roughly 12-hundred wheeled vehicles his unit will take into Iraq will be armored.
General Rodeheaver is also quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as saying the 48th has not yet been given a definite mission for its yearlong deployment in the war zone but that "we anticipate we will end up in central Iraq."
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October 21st, 2024
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