PARKERSBURG - An Army Reserve unit that recently celebrated thehomecoming of several members will be deployed to Iraq as early asJuly.
This is the first time the entire Charlie Company, 463rdEngineering Battalion, will be activated in more than 50 years, saidspokesman Sgt. William Dailey.
Activation-alert orders came Saturday, the eve of a welcome-homeparty for several of the Parkersburg-based unit's members whorecently returned from overseas deployment.
"It was a shocker to my mother as well as anybody's wife there.We're definitely going," Dailey said. He said the deployment couldcome as late as November.
"It (Iraq) is not a place of sunshine and …
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