This morning's assignment was to shoot the departure of Co. A, 2nd Btn., 153rd Infantry, 39th Infantry Bde. Combat Team and Detatchment 1 of the same unit from the armory in Walnut Ridge.
That amounts to about 110 kids who look like your high school football team with guns - serious guns.
Lots of tearful goodbyes with wives, girlfriends, parents.
They're headed for Camp Shelby, Miss. After a month of training there, it's off to Iraq.
Arkansas is hunting country and a lot of these guys have been handling firearms since they were little kids, so they'll be be a serious threat in a firefight.
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