Oregon Public Broadcasting

Idaho Army National Guard members learned Friday they may be headed overseas again. The same brigade spent a year in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Correspondent Doug Nadvornick reports.

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Marsano says the news of the deployment wasn't a surprise.

Lieutenant Tim Marsano: “They've known for some time now that they were rather penciled in, if you will, to the deployment cycle.”

Marsano says the new order doesn't guarantee that members of the unit based in Boise are going overseas. And there's no word yet about where they would serve. Marsano says the deployment would likely be for a year, with the first three months spent training in the U.S.

Many of the brigade members have already served in Iraq. About two-thirds of the Idaho Army National Guard soldiers are actually from Idaho. The others are from Oregon and Montana.