Morgan County Ohio National Guard Unit to be Deployed

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The Ohio National Guard will honor an area group of soldiers who are getting ready for deployment.  80 soldiers from the Battery C Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, based in McConnelsville will be departing for a year-long deployment in support of U.S Central Command Operations. 

The soldiers are not going to Afghanistan. 

While deployed, they will provide short-range air defense in support of the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade and Operation Inherent Resolve. 

The unit’s call to duty ceremony will be place this Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Secrest Auditorium in Zanesville.

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