(This unit was prepared to come home and then the return was cancelled.)
Army reservists with the 94th Military Police have been told they will spend another 90 days in the Middle East escorting supply convoys.
The unit has already been in the region for a year, and was deployed to Fort Polk, La., for four months before that. With an additional three months, the reserve unit will have been activated for more than a year and a half, far longer than soldiers expected when they were called up.
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When the soldiers left, the expectation was a one-year activation with nine months spent in the Middle East, even though they knew the deployments could be extended. Just before the unit was to come home in December, Defense Department officials announced a policy of requiring all Guard and reserve troops to spend a year in the Middle East, in addition to preparations and training done in the United States.
Members of the 94th, who have run police academies for Iraqis in Ramadi and worked in hot spots like Fallujah, were just a few hours from leaving for home from Kuwait when an Army colonel told them their departure was on hold. If they stayed, they would either be deployed in Kuwait or returned to Iraq, he said.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/04041494th.shtmlGuarding convoys? Man, I don't think I'd want that job right now.
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