GULFPORT -- By now, members of the Mississippi Army National Guard's 1108th Theater Aviation Sustainment Unit should be in Kuwait.
The unit deployed Sunday, Sept. 18, from the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center on Hewes Avenue.
About 600 people attended the farewell ceremony, which included an Honor Guard and rounds of applause for the 140 guard members as well as their families, according to the Sun Herald. Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo, a former marine, spoke to the military personnel.
The National Guard unit is one of four of its kind in the U.S., and will provide high-level aviation maintenance. They will have detachments in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Horn of Africa, the newspaper reports.
Every time we say goodbye:
Families bid farewell to guard unit headed for Kuwait
The Sun Herald/Monday, September 19, 2011
Photos of Farewell Ceremony
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