The Wisconsin National Guard 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, the state’s largest with 3,500 soldiers, will be deployed to Iraq early next year in the state guard’s largest operational deployment since World War II.
Notification began Friday, Sept. 5, and continued through that weekend. The unit – including Sussex’s 108th Forward Support Company and Oconomowoc’s Det. 1, 32nd Military Police Company – has been on alert since last December.
According to a Dec. 3, 2007, Defense Department news release, the brigade "will have a security force mission and be assigned tasks which will assure freedom of movement and continuity of operations" in Iraq.
The Wisconsin units will report for duty at their local armories in mid-February, then train at a U.S. Army installation in Texas for about two months before deploying to Iraq for the next 10 months.