(Radio Iowa) – More than 700 Iowa National Guard soldiers were called to active duty during 2024 and Iowa National Guard Adjutant General Steve Osborn says 63 are on duty Friday in the nation’s Capitol for the presidential inauguration.
Eighteen hundred soldiers in the Iowa Guard’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team will have 21-days of intensive training this summer at Fort Johnson, in Louisiana, before a scheduled deployment to the Middle East.
The adjutant general says soldiers from Kosovo will train alongside the Iowa Guard unit and then 38 soldiers from the Kosovo Security Force’s Infantry Platoon will deploy for the same mission in the Middle East.
