Guard will play more prominent role in next Iraq rotation
Friday, July 9, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Citizen soldiers of the Army National Guard, which has suffered increasing casualties in Iraq in recent months, will assume a notably more prominent role in the next rotation of U.S. combat forces into Iraq beginning late this year, officials said Thursday.
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