Winner Guard Members Included in Deployment to Kuwait

The South Dakota Army National Guard’s 155^th Engineer Company has received an alert order for possible mobilization to Kuwait.

The 155^th and its 162 assigned members are scheduled for deployment in the August 2015 timeframe. The unit’s headquarters is in Rapid  City with its Detachment 1 in Wagner. The unit includes five to six persons from the Winner area. Of the company’s 162 members, 90 are from Wagner and the surrounding area.

The 155^th is a vertical engineer company capable of providing engineer support in the construction of base camps as well as constructing, repairing and maintaining other vertical infrastructures in support of units within a brigade combat team, division or corps.

The unit will report to Fort Bliss, Texas, to complete several weeks of theater-specific training prior to deployment overseas.

This will be the second mobilization for the 155^th which deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Noble Eagle in 2002-2003.