THE HAWAII ARMY NATIONAL GUARD’S 29th INFANTRY BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM NOTIFIED ABOUT POSSIBLE MOBILIZATION

For Immediate Release:  April 4, 2011

THE HAWAII ARMY NATIONAL GUARD’S 29th INFANTRY BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM NOTIFIED ABOUT POSSIBLE MOBILIZATION

Major General Darryll D.M. Wong, State Adjutant General, has announced that the Hawaii Army National Guard’s 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT), to include its organic infantry battalions from Arizona (1-158th) and Guam (1-294th), has received a "Notification of Sourcing" (NOS) and was told to prepare for a possible deployment to Afghanistan in 2013. Possible missions or specific mobilization details are not currently available. The Soldiers from Hawaii, Arizona and Guam have been notified by their commands over the last several days.

The Notification of Sourcing does not constitute an official “alert”, mobilization, or decision to deploy, but it’s the military's method of communicating to a unit that it should vigilantly prepare for a deployment. Until an actual “alert order” is approved by the Secretary of Defense, there is still a possibility that the 29th IBCT will not be mobilized or deployed.

The 29th IBCT was first brought on active duty orders in support of the Vietnam Conflict in 1968. Since then, it has deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2004 the 29th spent a year in Iraq and Kuwait and in 2008 they were stationed in Kuwait.

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