Posted on Dec 22, 2014
SGM Erik Marquez
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There were many opportunities..
For me it stated with Operation Nimrod Dancer deployed an infantry brigade task force from 7th INF DIV to protect US citizens and possessions, and perform a show of force in Panama for 6 months in 1989.
Than weeks later after coming home deployed again for operation Just Cause.

Just cause was 25 years ago this month, the first of many Christmas days away from home... it seems that for me that started a long tradition of not being with family.. Later there was Iraq, than Iraq again, than Afghanistan.

For those that have been deployed over the holidays ,,, where did it start for you?
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OEF and OIF started in 2003 for me.
SGT Ben Keen
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Operation Southern Watch, 2001 started it for me.

What made that deployment memorable was we deployed just weeks after the 9/11 attacks. For the first few days, we weren't sure if we were going to stay in Kuwait or move out. Thankfully, we stayed put and completed our mission of defending the Southern no-fly Zone. It felts sort of unreal to go back just a few months later and be mere miles away from the Iraqi border knowing that in hours, we would be crossing that line.
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