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NEWS ADVISORY
Camp Dodge, Iowa
January 21, 2003
Johnston, Iowa....
TWO MORE IOWA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD COMPANIES
ORDERED TO FEDERAL ACTIVE DUTY
The Department of Defense and the National Guard Bureau, Washington,
D.C., announced Monday that the Iowa Army National Guard's Headquarters and
Support Company, 109th Medical Battalion, Iowa City, and the 1133rd
Transportation Company, Mason City, will be ordered to Federal Active Duty.
These mobilizations are part of the United States Operation Enduring Freedom
and the War on Terrorism.
A total of approximately 320 officers and soldiers are affected by this
Federal Call-up. The 109th Medical Battalion is authorized about 150
medical professionals and healthcare support soldiers and the 1133rd
Transportation Company is authorized about 170 soldiers. The soldiers are
ordered to active duty for one year that may be extended for an additional
year by the Secretary of the Army.
The Iowa National Guard will have over 900 airmen and soldiers on duty
with this mobilization.
Both unit's soldiers will be placed in a Federal Active Duty Status at
their respective armories on Friday, January 24, 2003, to complete necessary
administrative processing and preparation of their equipment for shipping to
the mobilization duty location. The units are scheduled to depart their
armories on Monday, 27 January 2003, in route to Fort McCoy Wisconsin, their
active duty Mobilization Station. It is unknown how long they will be at
Fort McCoy before they are directed to their active duty location which has
not been received at this headquarters.
The mission of the Headquarters and Support Compnay, 109th Medical
Battalion is to provide command and control of subordinate medical
companies that provide medical care in a theater of operations. They also
distribute medical suppplies. The 1133rd Transportation Company is a
long-haul medium truck company that transports personnel and supplies and
equipment in a theater of operations.
The units will take all of their equipment when they depart their
armories.
Both units were mobilized for active duty during 1990-91 and deployed to
Saudi Arabia where they supported Operation Desert Storm.
For questions concerning this mobilization as well as additional
information about the operation, training, and activities of the Iowa Army
and Air National Guard, please call Colonel Robert C. King, Iowa National
Guard Public Affairs Officer.
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