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Arizona Army National Guard Deploys to Middle East

Sedona AZ (October 19, 2018) – More than two dozen soldiers of the Arizona Army National Guard’s 856th Military Police Company, Detachment 2 will be recognized at a deployment send-off ceremony Sunday, October 21 at the Allen Readiness Center, Papago Park Military Reservation, Phoenix. This detachment will join its sister detachment – Detachment 1 – in Afghanistan for approximately nine months in support of Operation Freedom Sentinel. This is the second deployment for the 856th MP Company since it was stood up in the Arizona National Guard in 2008, with Detachment 1 leaving last month for the mobilization station.

Maj. Gen. Michael T. McGuire, the Adjutant General of Arizona, will be the keynote speaker for this ceremony, which will include family members, friends, and community supporters.

The more than two dozen Soldiers assigned to the detachment are a small part of the many Arizona National Guard members serving on federal active duty overseas.

The Arizona National Guard has supported more than 11,000 individual deployments since September 11, 2001.

The hour long Arizona Army National Guard Send-Off Ceremony will be held on Sunday, October 21, 2018, at 7:00 a.m. at the Allen Readiness Center, 5636 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona 85008.

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10 Comments

  1. Kevin Sparks says:

    Wait Arizona we need these guys on the border. The Democrats are pretending they care when they started the caravans.

  2. Sedona Larry says:

    Yes it’s political. No it’s not Democrats. No it’s not Republicans. It’s people wanting to manipulate the system here. Follow the money. Isn’t it humorous that nobody is even suggesting anymore that they are escaping for their lives? They aren’t and haven’t been. Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and other countries need to welcome their Latino and Hispanic brothers and sisters in order to save their languages and cultures from extinction. The UN needs to step in and set up a safe zone in the borders of neighboring countries to prevent coyotes and child thieves from arranging these caravans which smuggle in children taken from parents, young girls and boys sold into slavery, and drug smuggling and more. Cuba is looking for workers. Help them to go there and help Cuba.

  3. Arizona National Guard Vaccine Mandate Notice says:

    Secretary of Defense Austin received President Biden’s approval to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all Service members and established September 15 as the deadline for a DoD-wide implementation plan. The policy will cover Service members from active, reserve components and the National Guard.

    “The Arizona National Guard is ready to execute this policy and awaits further implementation guidance from higher headquarters,” said Arizona National Guard’s Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck. “Adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the full list of medical readiness requirements for military personnel protects the health and well-being of our Service members in order to answer the call of the State and Nation.”

    Vr,
    SFC Mike Zahnow
    Arizona National Guard Public Affairs Office

  4. Dave Knauss says:

    Today Afghanistan is a terrifying mess under the Biden administration handling of the withdrawal causing massive unnecessary deaths and unfathomable destruction. What could have been avoided by the Democrats wasn’t, another example of how they don’t learn from the past and how they continue to rewrite the present ignorantly. Even Kamala Harris is bragging she was last into the room when the discussion was about the Afghanistan withdrawal, believing that absolves her of any responsibility for the Saigon like chaos. Biden has never been right about foreign policy and even former President Obama ignored him. Unfortuately the Democrats elected Biden and he has now proven Obama was right, and the Democrats election of Harris proved the Democratic primary voters right – Harris was and is a last place finisher.

  5. Missing Obama Iron Fist says:

    @dave read this buddy
    http://www.newsweek.com
    inexcusable-failure-obama-ethics-chief-slams-biden-not-evacuating-more-afghan-allies

  6. Okaysan Abraham says:

    It was running from the podium that was so presidential and trying to blame somebody else when it was all on this administration. No Virginia it was not Santa Claus and it was not the big bad Trump. It was all on you and your people. You should have followed Trump’s plan and date but your arrogance to have a big 9-11 pro Biden media day blew up in your faces. You couldn’t allow a Trump date and that became your unraveling. The grim reality is incompetence.

  7. Frank says:

    China Russia Iran laugh all the way to the bank with the Taliban. They won’t tolerate the Taliban leaders independence, they’ll let them run rampant to obscure CRI murders of the pro west population without paying a public price. Win win for CRI and loss loss for
    America. Let’s mention the “science” and “military intelligence and equipment” we gifted China Russia Iran. China and Russia can build huge Muslim detention or re-education camps and ship their troublemakers there. Afghanistan will be the Muslim prison killing field.

  8. Phil, west Sedona says:

    Learn to think beyond what you’re told. Russia and China told Joe Biden they won’t allow OPEC to increase oil production. Last year America was energy independent and selling it abroad, this year our poor are poorer paying 50% more for gasoline at the pumps and begging for oil from Russia. Are communists and socialists in full charge of DC? Taliban is back in charge of a major part of the globe with Twitter help, Facebook kicked the Taliban account off but not Twitter. Seems Tweets aren’t as bad as Trump.

  9. Mark Alexander says:

    On the eve of 9/11, Joe Biden has re-seeded al-Qa’ida’s terrorist turf.

    “We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country’s Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.” —George Washington (1776)

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