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March 12, 2009

Guardsmen

Guardsmen from the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team go on a dismounted patrol during a training exercise at McGregor Range, N.M. March 4. The Soldiers were learning to detect and react to the IEDs, which are the No. 1 killer in theater. For more on this story, see the "News" section of our Web site. Photo by Maj. Deanna Bague.

Sgt. Michael Thacker, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Air Defense Artillery, spends time with his wife Candace and their 2-year-old son Ryan at Milam Gym before deploying Saturday with the unit.
Photo by Capt. Tamara Gonzales.

3-3 ADA deploys
New unit ready for wartime mission, battalion leadership says

Capt. Tamara Gonzales

11th ADA Bde. Public Affairs

“When we first started building this unit, it was like building an airplane in flight,” said Lt. Col. Randall McIntire, commander of 3rd Battalion, 3rd Air Defense Artillery.

The unit’s main body deployed Saturday from Fort Bliss to conduct counter-rocket, artillery and mortar missions in defense of Soldiers and Sailors already on the ground in Southwest Asia.

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WBAMC continues to contact patients affected by insulin pen misuse

William Beaumont Army Medical Center has made direct contact with more than 94 percent of diabetic patients requiring screening as a result of being placed at risk for exposure to a blood-borne disease when insulin pens were used incorrectly. To date, 61 percent of those patients contacted have elected to be medically screened for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV. Screening began Feb. 5 and notification of laboratory results by registered mail began Feb. 26.

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