West Tennessee Guardsmen Redlegs ( Arty ) being deployed as MPs ( with training )

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Most of my relatives on both sides of my family still live in Hardeman Co., TN., and have since the early 1800s. My Uncle Elvin was in one of these units and went to Korea with it in 1951 as a artilleryman....

I thought this was an interesting story. Anything similar in your part of the country ?

Larry

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http://www.bulletintimes.com/

Family members holding banners lined the Armory driveway to wave tearful goodbyes to guardsmen deployed as part of the Homeland Security effort.

More than a hundred family members and friends braved frigid temperatures Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. at the National Guard Armory in Bolivar to bid emotional farewells to members of the Hardeman County National Guard. First South Bank of Bolivar provided breakfast to the guardsmen and their families, before the men boarded two buses and began their mission to protect America?s sensitive installations. The deployment could last as long as two years.
Tennessee was selected to provide two provisional military police companies to backfill a shortage of military police in the Active Army. The soldiers were drawn from Battery A, 2-115 Field Artillery in Lexington and Battery C from Bolivar and Selmer. Also included in the mobilization are selected soldiers from Headquarters 2-115 Field Artillery in Henderson and Battery B in Savannah and Waynesboro.
The soldiers will first travel to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri where they will receive Military Police training for approximately two months before being assigned to posts with the national Homeland Security effort. Although the soldiers have been informed they will be assigned to installments in Hawaii, the continental United States and Europe, they could be deployed to the Middle East if the government needs their presence there.