2009/05/11:732nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion Sendoff

732nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion Sendoff
Wisconsin National Guard Public Affairs Office
Contact: Maj. Jackie Guthrie, Department of Military Affairs, Public Affairs Office, May 11, 2009

Family, friends and state officials bid farewell to the headquarters unit of the 732nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, Wisconsin Army National Guard, in a 10 a.m. ceremony Saturday May 11, 2009.

Approximately 80 soldiers of the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, based in Tomah, will depart later this month for about a month of training in Indiana before deploying to Iraq, where it will provide command and control of logistics operations in its assigned area.

The unit had been on alert since late January 2008 and received its mobilization order Oct. 3. Soldiers will spend about one year of total active duty service for the deployment.

Only the battalion headquarters was ordered to active duty by this mobilization order. The battalion’s subordinate units are not part of this deployment. However, one of the subordinate units, the 1158th Transportation Company, deployed as part of the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployment in February of this year.