Alabama Guard unit headed to IraqAlabama Army National Guard The Alabama National Guard comprises both Army and Air National Guard components. The Constitution of the United States specifically charges the National Guard with dual federal and state missions. personnel assigned to the 158th Maintenance Co. were given a big send off this afternoon. Approximately 190 soldiers attended a departure ceremony at Tallassee High School. Alabama’s adjutant ADJUTANT. A military officer, attached to every battalion of a regiment. It is his duty to superintend, under his superiors, all matters relating to the ordinary routine of discipline in the regiment. general, Major Gen. A.C. Blocklock and Army Major Gen. Joe Harkey, commander of the 167th Sustainment Command in Birmingham spoke at the 11 a.m. ceremony. Members of the unit will depart tomorrow morning for their mobilization station The designated military installation to which a Reserve Component unit or individual is moved for further processing, organizing, equipping, training, and employment and from which the unit or individual may move to an aerial port of embarkation or seaport of embarkation. at Camp Atterbury Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh, Indiana, is a training base of the Indiana National Guard. It was planned just months before the U.S. entry into World War II. Originally surveyed and researched by the Hurd Company, the present site was recommended to Congress in 1941. , Ind. After a train-up period, they are scheduled to replace the 62nd Maintenance Company at Mosul in northern Iraq. The unit will provide tactical combat recovery teams, maintenance support teams and force protection assets to support sustained ground combat operations. The 158th was activated in 1991 for service in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. With the current mobilization of the 158th, more than 13,500 Alabama Army and Air Guard members have now been called to active duty since Sept. 11, 2001 in the nation’s war on terror This article is about U.S. actions, and those of other states, after September 11, 2001. For other conflicts, see Terrorism. The War on Terror (also known as the War on Terrorism . The 158th has detachments in Tuskegee and Tallassee. 
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