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DoD Announces Replacement Unit for Iraq Rotation
DefenseLink ^ | 8 December 2009 | UNK

Posted on 12/09/2009 1:11:07 AM PST by DJ Elliott

The Department of Defense announced today the alert for mobilization of a replacement unit scheduled to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Approximately 2,600 soldiers from the 29th Combat Aviation Brigade, headquartered at Edgewood, Md., will begin deploying in the summer of 2011.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: air; army; iraq; oif; rotation; soldiers
Either this brigade is going for a less than six month deployment or it is staying into 2012...
1 posted on 12/09/2009 1:11:08 AM PST by DJ Elliott
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To: SandRat

First notice of deployment that lasts past deadline.
“Troops” apparently does not include aviation...


2 posted on 12/09/2009 1:13:10 AM PST by DJ Elliott
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To: DJ Elliott

This unit is deploying to Iraq, right?


3 posted on 12/09/2009 3:04:45 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

That is what the notice says.


4 posted on 12/09/2009 3:42:08 AM PST by DJ Elliott
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