National Guard Unit Gets Secret Duty Abroad
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About 80 members of an elite California National Guard Special Forces unit, headquartered in Redwood City and Los Alamitos, have been told to get ready for a secret mission overseas, officials said.
The deployment of the 19th Special Forces Group was ordered last week amid talk of war with Iraq and military action in Afghanistan.
The soldiers may ship out within a week, a California National Guard spokeswoman said.
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