WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Hina) - United States National Guard unit, consisting of 267 members of the 29th light infantry division,to replace part of the American Stabilisation Force (SFOR) contingent in north-east Bosnia for the next six
months, will travel to Tuzla on Sunday. The National Guard members are required to attend training sessions twice a month, and take part in a two-week exercise once a year. The replacement force for Bosnia, whose final destination is Camp Comanche helicopter base 40 kilometres north of Sarajevo, has been through an intensive, one-month training course in the Fort Polk base in Louisiana. The Washington Post has arranged for five new SFOR members - Master Sergeant Preston Curvey (45), a Maryland truck driver, Tabitha Salinas, a 21-year old single mother from Baltimore, Staff Sergeant Roger Weaver (57), a bank manager, Sergeant Raymond Arpin (53), a central heating system technician,
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Hina) - United States National Guard unit,
consisting of 267 members of the 29th light infantry division,
to replace part of the American Stabilisation Force (SFOR)
contingent in north-east Bosnia for the next six months, will
travel to Tuzla on Sunday.
The National Guard members are required to attend training sessions
twice a month, and take part in a two-week exercise once a year.
The replacement force for Bosnia, whose final destination is Camp
Comanche helicopter base 40 kilometres north of Sarajevo, has been
through an intensive, one-month training course in the Fort Polk
base in Louisiana.
The Washington Post has arranged for five new SFOR members - Master
Sergeant Preston Curvey (45), a Maryland truck driver, Tabitha
Salinas, a 21-year old single mother from Baltimore, Staff Sergeant
Roger Weaver (57), a bank manager, Sergeant Raymond Arpin (53), a
central heating system technician, and Colonel Ron Price (49),a
helicopter pilot and a volunteer fireman, employed at the National
Board for Traffic Safety - to publish excerpts from their
journals.
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