Fort Sill soldiers deploying to Africa

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Fort Sill soldiers deploying to Africa
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Mar 10, 2008 6:05:23 EDT

LAWTON, Okla. — Students and teachers from a Lawton elementary school attended a departure ceremony at Fort Sill for about 300 soldiers being deployed to Africa.

The students at Flower Mound School showed support during Friday’s ceremony for soldiers of B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery who visited their school last Veterans Day.

“We brought 17 fifth- and sixth-graders, and we have seven or eight teachers and several assistants,” said Brenda Parker a teacher at Flower Mound, an elementary school in southeast Lawton.

Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Dial, the husband of pre-kindergarten teacher Kristina Dial, is among those deploying with the battalion, and it was his battery that came to talk with the students on Veterans Day. Kristina Dial was in the stands Friday with the couple’s two children.

The battalion that Fort Sill honored Friday is deploying to Djibouti and several surrounding countries in the Horn of Africa.


Rest of Africom article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/ap_africadeployment_030808/