West TN Guard Members Set To Deploy
National Guard units from West Tennessee are leaving this week for the first leg of a trip taking them to Kuwait.
The Tennessee National Guard said in a news release that 175 soldiers from the 230th Engineer Battalion in Trenton will leave the armory on Wednesday and 164 soldiers from the 913th Engineer Company in Union City are scheduled to leave on Thursday.
Both units are part of the 194th Engineer Brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Jeff Holmes.
They will fly to Fort Bliss, Texas, for training and then on to Kuwait in support of the Afghanistan war.
More than 20,000 soldiers from the Tennessee Army and Air National Guard have deployed since Sept. 11, 2001.
