1132nd Military Police Company Homecoming (NCNG)
Army Specialist Jonathan Gabriel of the 1132nd Military Police Company, North Carolina Army National Guard, listens to a safety briefing on a North Carolina Air National Guard C-130 Hercules before departing the Hiedelberg Reginal Airport, Miss., and onward to Rocky Mount, N.C. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen The unit had just retuned from a tour in Iraq and was undergoing demobilization at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. The Military Police unit entered into Federal active duty in June 007, and was deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in September 2007, and while there, out of the 120 deployed Soldiers of the 1132nd Military Police Company, five Soldiers were killed in action, four N.C. National Guard Soldiers and one from the New Hampshire National Guard, and over 20 wounded, and several of those soldiers remain under medical care at medical facilities in the U.S. During the deployment, the 1132nd served with great distinction and suffered the heaviest casualities of any N.C. National Guard Company since World War II. PA Released. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen, N.C. Air National Guard.