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Article: Bolstering border patrol; 80 state National Guard soldiers to be deployed to Arizona
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2006
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Eighty soldiers in the Wisconsin National Guard will leave
Thursday for a deployment to Arizona and a two-year stint helping
border patrols stop illegal immigrants from Mexico, military
officials announced Monday.
All of the troops being sent west as part of Operation Jump Start
volunteered for the duty late last week, said Lt. Col. Tim Donovan,
spokesman for the state's Department of Military Affairs. Most of
them have served tours in Iraq and Kuwait, and they represent units
spread throughout the state, Donovan said.
With the deployment, Wisconsin will be the 14th state to send
troops as part of President Bush's initiative to bolster the U.S.
Border Patrol in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and ...