Wednesday, May 31, 2006

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Mississippi Armed Forces Museum To Honor Iraq Veterans In The 155th

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Mississippi Armed Forces Museum To Honor Iraq Veterans In The 155th: "Camp Shelby opened in 1917, and tens of thousands of soldiers have trained on its 136,000-acres, including the 155th, which spent most of 2005 in Iraq. The brigade was made up of 3,500 - an era in which 100,000 soldiers trained at Camp Shelby.

The brigade _ with members from Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Texas, Puerto Rico, Virginia, Missouri, New Jersey, South Carolina, Vermont, Utah, and Arkansas - was attached to the II Marine Expeditionary Force."

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