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Welcome to Family, Friends, And Supporters Of The 129th Transportation Company (Combat HET).
This section contains Army Reserve caps, Army Reserve cups, Army Reserve shirts, Army Reserve posters, Army Reserve postcards, Army Reserve bumper stickers, and other Army Reserve merchandise for family, friends, and supporters of the 129th Transportation Company (Combat HET).
The 129th Transportation Company is a unit of the 89th Regional Support Command, the former 89th Infantry Division. Click here to read more about the 89th Regional Support Command or to buy 89th Regional Support Command merchandise. Click here to purchase 129th Transportation Company (Combat HET) merchandise for members of the unit.
Original orders activated the 129th Transportation Company (Combat HET) from January 21, 2003.
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. It also has a guestbook for petition signatures and supportive remarks.
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