PHOENIX (AP) - More than two dozen members of the Arizona Army National Guard are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.
The Arizona National Guard will hold a send-off ceremony Tuesday morning at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix.
The soldiers are based in the 856th Military Police Company.
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They will head to Afghanistan to serve a nine-month deployment.
Maj. Gen. Michael T. McGuire, the state’s adjutant general, will be the keynote speaker at the 7 a.m. ceremony.
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