Family and friends wave U.S. flags as a chartered Boeing 757 carrying soldiers of the 11th Signal Brigade taxis before taking off Thursday morning off from Libby Army Airfield. The soldiers are headed to serve in Iraq. (Suzanne Cronn-Herald/Review)
Posted on 10/04/2007 9:06:39 PM PDT by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — Slightly after 11 a.m. on Thursday, a commercial Boeing 757 lifted off the main runaway at Libby Army Airfield carrying 114 soldiers of the 11th Signal Brigade to a 15-month deployment in Iraq.
The soldiers, mainly of the brigade’s headquarters company, are the first of the hundreds of soldiers from the 11th Signal Brigade, primarily of the 40th Signal Battalion, headed to Iraq between now and the end of the year.
Soldiers of the brigade’s 86th Signal Battalion are expected to return from their 15-month deployment later this month and in November.
For more on this story, see Friday’s edition of the Herald/Review.
Herald/Review senior reporter Bill Hess can be reached at 515-4615, or by e-mail at bill.hess@svherald.com.
Family and friends wave U.S. flags as a chartered Boeing 757 carrying soldiers of the 11th Signal Brigade taxis before taking off Thursday morning off from Libby Army Airfield. The soldiers are headed to serve in Iraq. (Suzanne Cronn-Herald/Review)
FR WAR NEWS! Godspeed
Prayers for them.
Now kick some terrorist butt.
You have our prayers! God Speed!!! Eagles UP!
Godspeed
Prayers for them all to stay safe, Sandy!
They have probably already landed and checked in by now. God Bless every one of them.
The 11th Signal Brigade is a totally mobile unit headquartered at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It is the primary provider of rapid deployment tactical commmunications anywhere in the world. Using switch, satellite, microwave, cable and tropospheric scatter, the brigade is capable of providing service to units no matter where they are in the world. It provides both long distance and local service.
The Army Signal Corp. obviously still does!
Godspeed. Stay sharp. Kick @ss. Take names. Come home safe.
Lots of new U.S. signal activity in the news today. Hmmm...
Is it so smart to telegraph troop deployments of such obvious sensitive mission personnel?
I worked some exercise HF shots with Fort Huachuca to support Operation Solid Shield in 1980 from MacDill.
OpsSec says no, but this is a published deployment. If it was supposed to be kept on the down-low we would not know about to even talk about it.
!!!!!!!!!!!! SHORT !!!!!!!!~40 Days~2nd.BCT.10th.Mt.Div.;0)
Man, I bet you have to stand on a dime to look over a quarter!
Next thing you know you'll have to borrow a parachute from airborne to get out of bed.
I know historic Ft. Drum will be a great place to come home to in the fall!
Man, I bet you have to stand on a dime to look over a quarter!
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LOL,,,It’s my house-mate’s Son...
The last time I was that short was in ‘68...;0)
Tell him what I said, and that I’m thinking of how good it will be to “X” that last day off of the calendar!
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