Fort Lewis battalion to be deployed to Iraq

Fort Lewis battalion to be deployed to Iraq

Story Published: Mar 26, 2008 at 5:25 PM PDT

By Associated Press

FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - A Fort Lewis battalion of about 490 soldiers will be deployed to Iraq for a third time.

The battalion's mission will be searching out and destroying Improvised Exploding Devices, road repair and general construction.

The 14th Combat Engineer Battalion Deployment/Flag Casing Ceremony will take place Thursday at Fort Lewis.

The unit first deployed in November 2005 and in August 2006.
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