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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2006 No. 06-121 DEPLOYING SOLDIERS TO BE HONORED BY DEPARTURE CEREMONY Approximately 180 soldiers of the Kansas National Guard’s 731st
Transportation Company will be honored during a departure ceremony on
Sunday, Nov. 26. The 10 a.m. ceremony will be held at the Highway Patrol
auditorium, 2025 E. Iron Ave., Salina. The soldiers are deploying to Iraq
in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. “It always makes me proud to see our soldiers so eager to do their
mission,” said Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, the adjutant general. “This
is what they’ve trained for and while we know they’re going
to miss their families, they know they have a job to do, a job that will
help expand freedom overseas and preserve freedom here at home. I salute
them and wish them safe travel and a blessed Thanksgiving holiday with
their families.” The 731st Transportation Company is headquartered in Larned with detachments
in Hays, Liberal, and Wichita. It is part of the Kansas National Guard’s
287th Sustainment Brigade. The 731st TC uses flatbed trucks to haul dry
and refrigerated containerized cargo, general non-containerized cargo,
bulk water and bulk petroleum products. The unit last deployed to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Enduring Freedom. Approximately 50 soldiers were involved in that deployment. -30- |
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