Oregon Guard's 41st Brigade Combat Team Mobilizes for Iraq Deployment

The 41st will conduct four mobilization ceremonies the first week in May in preparation for training at Camp Stewart, Georgia, then deployment to Iraq.

(TIGARD, Ore.) - The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, headquartered in Tigard, Oregon, will conduct four mobilization ceremonies the first week in May in preparation for training at Camp Stewart, Georgia, then deployment to Iraq.

The ceremonies in Portland, Bend, Eugene, and Medford will give local communities an opportunity to wish the soldiers well as they depart on what is the largest deployment of the Oregon National Guard since World War II.

Nearly 2,700 soldiers from Oregon and five companies of soldiers totaling 700 personnel from Delaware, Massachusetts, Nebraska and New Mexico will spend about two months training followed by ten months in Iraq.

Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 141st Brigade Support Battalion of Portland, Oregon
A Company, 141st Brigade Support Battalion of Portland, Ore.
B Company, 141st Brigade Support Battalion of Portland, Ore.
A Company, 2nd Battalion, 218 Field Artillery of Portland, Ore.
G Company, 2nd Battalion, 218th Field Artillery of Forest Grove, Ore.
Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team of Portland, Ore.
Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 41st Special Troops Battalion of Clackamas, Ore.
A Company, 41st Special Troops Battalion of Clackamas, Ore.
C Company, 41st Special Troops Battalion of Clackamas, Ore.

Saturday, May 2, at 2 p.m.
Mt. View High School Stadium
2755 NE 27th Street
Bend, Ore.

Headquarters, Headquarters Troop, 1st Battalion, 82nd
Cavalry of Bend, Ore.
A Company, 1st Battalion, 82nd Cavalry of Lebanon, Ore.
B Company, 1st Battalion, 82nd Cavalry of Woodburn, Ore.

Monday, May 4, 2009 at 9 a.m.
Lane County Fairgrounds Performance Hall
796 West 13th Avenue
Eugene, Ore.

Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry of Springfield, Ore.
A Company, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry of Springfield, Ore.
B Company, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry of Corvallis, Ore.
C Company, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry of Gresham, Ore.
D Company, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry of Hillsboro, Ore.

Monday, May 4, 2009 at 2 p.m.
Jackson County Expo Center, Compton Arena
1 Peninger Road
Central Point, Ore.

Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry of Ashland, Ore.
A Company, 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry of Ashland, Ore.
B Company, 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry of Coos Bay, Ore.
C Company, 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry of Roseburg, Ore.
D Company, 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry of Grants Pass, Ore.

Salem-News.com's Tim King spent two months with the 41st BCT during their last deployment to Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007. To see those stories about 41st BCT soldiers, visit this link, you will have to click past Tim's Iraq stories to see the ones from Afghanistan: Oregon Guard War Stories

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jonny May 8, 2009 9:07 pm (Pacific time)

wish all you guys the best of luck, and sorry i cant go.

gramma pat April 27, 2009 11:27 am (Pacific time)

You are never far from my heart. May the Lord bless you and keep all of you.

Daniel April 25, 2009 4:47 pm (Pacific time)

One more point on Morse , there is a great scupture of him in Eugene in the free speech plaza . The scupture was created by international artist Gabriel Ponzanelli , it is worth seeing , by far the best scupture in Eugene .

Daniel April 25, 2009 4:37 pm (Pacific time)

Best of luck to the men and women of the Oregon National guard , i pray you have a safe tour . Wayne Morse was the best Oregon ever had , he was a republican than later changed to independent , than in 1955 to the Democratic party . Morse was one of two Senators to oppose the gulf of Tonkin resolution . In 1968 he lost to Bob Packwood because of his opposition to the war .

Flow April 25, 2009 11:31 am (Pacific time)

I am currently in Iraq right now and we are told that Oregon will be replacing us, if interested in information about the current situation over here just email me at davidrf1424@yahoo.com and maybe we can exchange some info.

Editor: Flow is availing himself for Oregon Guard who are trying to get a picture of what has been going on over the past year. This isn't every day, I hope people drop him a line.

Henry Ruark April 24, 2009 1:07 pm (Pacific time)

Vic: You may have a strong point there, friend Vic...he would force full definition somehow, I do agree. But then Sen. Morse was always a maverick, for which we have reason to be thankful. Small item: New book on whole group of Presidential speech writers denotes him as Republican Senator ! Will be informing author of his horrible error.

Henry Ruark April 24, 2009 7:59 am (Pacific time)

To all: May help to recall FDR's classic remark to group pressing for action on isue they knew he wanted: "Now make me do it !" He was expressing need for determined not-to-be-denied public outcry --even outrage--as essential working pattern in representative democracy. Happens he was then stating what Saul Alinsky, famed Chicago-based community organizer, said later: "The only way to beat organized money is with organized people". Many now believe open,honest democratic dialog can be and must be start of precisely that kind and level of action.

Vic April 24, 2009 7:37 am (Pacific time)

Maybe I dont know all the facts, Henry..but I believe that if Wayne Morse were our governor now, he would refuse to send any National Guard pending a definition of the "national emergency" that requires Oregon Guard to be federalized (drafted).

Henry Ruark April 23, 2009 7:56 pm (Pacific time)

Vic et al: Again, this is not something any President can change at only very short working time. Constitutionally the powers involved fall to Congress, and require change via their own long-built practices. This is lawful deployment as set up by Congressional action and longtime custom, perhaps perfectly proper at the time of initiation and organization but surely needing change in our current climate of public opinion. Would you want the President to have power to do so by fiat himself ?? What we need is definite, well-defined, continuing and growing public demand for the suitable national security needed now. What do you and others now suggest for the changes best suited to remedy the faults of the current system ?

Vic April 23, 2009 7:44 am (Pacific time)

This is "Change" ?? What happened to the president who was going to end these wars for oil? Have we been lied to and tricked again? If so, what are we going to do? Nothing?

Scott April 22, 2009 7:30 pm (Pacific time)

My family and I will keep the Soldiers and Families of the 41 IBCT close in our thoughts and prayers. That sunset patch identifies excellent Leaders and unstoppable Soldiers! Jungleers!

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