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BRING OUR DEPLOYED TROOPS HOME ON TIME.
TWELVE MONTHS ON ACTIVE DUTY, NOT TWELVE MONTHS "IN THE BOX."
We offer caps, cups, shirts, posters, post cards, and other merchandise for people who agree that National Guard and Army Reserve mobilization and deployment should consist of twelve months of active duty, not twelve months “boots on the ground,” “in the box” after three months of stateside training and before two months of debriefing. Urge Congress and the President to support our troops: bring our troops home on time.
The Army announced in September, 2003, that the tours of duty of National Guardsmen and Reservists serving in Iraq will be extended to one year "on the ground." That does not count the months on active duty since their mobilizations, nor will it include the demobilization process when they return and the time that takes.
Before the policy was implemented, virtually all Guard and Reserve forces had been mobilized for 12 months. Most went to Iraq or Kuwait believing their overseas deployments would last about six months. Six-month overseas tours had been the norm for National Guard and Reserve troops before the Iraq war.
Under the new policy, total mobilization time for troops could increase by one to six months, because time spent in the United States no longer counts against the 12-month requirement. Most of the troops spent significant time on duty in the United States before going to Iraq.
Wives of soldiers in the 129th Transportation Company and the Army agree that soldiers have to serve 365 days. But the spouses and the Army disagree on when the clock started ticking. The wives of soldiers in the 129th Transportation Company say the one-year clock should have started when the soldiers were called up in January 2003. The Army says no, the clock starts when soldiers are "in the box," which is Army parlance for the moment a soldier sets foot overseas.
The 129th Transportation Company arrived in Kuwait on April 27.
The 89th Regional Support Command in Wichita, Kansas, said that current orders state that a soldier will serve 365 days abroad with a possible extension of a second year, a total of two years.
Visit the family website at www.129bringthemhome.com , or email messages129@yahoo.com. There is a guest book for petition signatures. See a similar website by the families of the 142nd Engineer Combat Battalion, a National Guard unit of the North Dakota Army National Guard with a Company from the Minnesota National Guard: www.bringhomethe142.org . It also has a guestbook for petition signatures and supportive remarks.
The 142nd Engineer Combat Battalion was activated in January 2003 and shipped to their mobilization station, Fort Carson, Colorado. Approximately 145 Minnesota Army National Guard members and approximately 500 members of the North Dakota National Guard, where the 142nd Combat Engineer Battalion is headquartered, have been activated for this mission.
Initially the 142nd Battalion was under the 4th Infantry Division and preparing to deploy to Turkey, but due to political differences, the troops were not allowed into Turkey. Finally, after ten weeks of training and waiting in Fort Carson, the 142nd Engineer Combat Battalion landed in Kuwait on April 11. Then on the morning of May 10, the soldiers and their vehicles left Kuwait for a two day convoy to Iraq.
Battalion soldiers are stationed at Logistical Support Area Anaconda, an abandoned Iraqi Airfield in Balad, Iraq, supporting the missions of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 142nd Battalion is an engineering battalion, providing support for other military units, so they work on a lot of living improvement projects for other units such as building latrines, showers, and picnic tables. Fixing the electricity in buildings, putting in wood floors in the tents, and pouring concrete pads for post generators are just a few of their projects.
Family members of the soldiers in the Minnesota Army National Guard Company C, 142nd Engineer Combat Battalion, based at Camp Ripley, are angry and frustrated that their loved ones have been given an extended tour of duty that could mean they remain in Iraq until April 2004, while hearing reports that other regular full-time Army units have been allowed to leave the combat zone.
Family members expected soldiers to return from active duty in January 2004, because they were mobilized in January 2003. However, the Army is telling National Guard and Reserve troops in Iraq that they will be there a full 12 months from the time they arrived there, apparently surprising some who had believed the clock started ticking on one-year tours once they reached mobilization stations in the United States.
Family members of C Company have created a website at www.bringhomethe142.org .
Company A family members have a website at www.the142.com .
The family support group for Headquarters Company also has a website at www.142hsc.com .
Company B family members may email contact guldenc@rrt.net.
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