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This Week in Guard History
Each week, the National Guard Educational Foundation provides an historical fact about a significant date in the history of the National Guard.
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September 6, 2004: Fort Polk, Louisiana — Team A, 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry, totaling some 150 men completes its training and prepares to deploy in support of the War on Terror. The men will be stationed in Eritrea on the Horn of Africa, a prime spot for terrorists fleeing from Afghanistan and Iraq. The Guam Army Guard was only organized in July 1981 and its major component, the294th Infantry was not organized until 1987. No mobilized Guam Army Guard units served in theater during Operations Desert Shield/Storm, and none were ever deployed to Bosnia or Kosovo on peace keeping mission. So this marks the first time a unit from the island was mobilized for service overseas.
