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The Adjutant General's Department

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    June 16, 2005

No. 05-058

KANSAS ARMY GUARD BATTERY RECEIVES ALERT/MOBILIZATION FOR IRAQ

Approximately 150 soldiers of the Kansas Army National Guard’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (-) (HHB), 1st Battalion, 127th Field Artillery, based in Ottawa, have been alerted for mobilization later this month for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

This battery normally provides a variety of support for the other batteries in a field artillery battalion. In Iraq, these soldiers will be providing force protection. The unit currently doing this job in Baghdad is Battery C, 1st Battalion, 151st Field Artillery of the Minnesota Army National Guard.

"I am very proud of these Kansas soldiers getting ready to deploy to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Many will be leaving their families for the second time to support our nation during the Global War on Terrorism," said Maj. Noel Grubb, "This is truly Kansas citizen-soldiers at their very best."

“Our Kansas Army National Guard soldiers are always ready to answer their country’s call in the name of freedom,” said Maj. Gen. (KS) Tod Bunting, the adjutant general. “I have no doubt these soldiers will respond with pride, dedication and enthusiasm for the mission they have been given.”

Grubb of Ellinwood, Kan., is the commander of HHB Forward. This will be his second deployment. He served in Bosnia-Herzegovina with the 35th Infantry Division from November 2002 to January 2004. He has also served briefly in Japan, South Korea and Germany. He has been in the Guard since 1990. In his civilian job, he is a teacher at Great Bend Middle School, Great Bend, Kan.

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