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posted by admin on May 12

TEANECK, N.J. - A 46-year-old combat medic and a 29-year-old man will be serving together in the same National Guard unit in Iraq. Nothing unusual - except they’re mother and son.

Sgt. Carmen Villegas, a 46-year-old combat medic, was transferred two weeks ago to the same Teaneck-based unit as her son, Sgt. Felipe Diaz.

Diaz, a Paterson police officer, said he was given the task of introducing the newest sergeant at the 250th Brigade Support Battalion’s Foxtrot Company.

The two will be among more than 2,800 soldiers of the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team who are heading to Iraq in September.

Villegas worked for eight years as an oncology nurse at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson. She said she had planned to retire from the Guard in June but changed her mind when she heard about the Iraq deployment.

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posted by admin on May 8

Army Secretary Pete Geren said May 7 that the Army has appropriated $248 million in emergency funds to fix problems found during inspections of 148,000 rooms at bases worldwide over the past two weeks.”We ordered a look at literally every single room,” Geren said. “We didn’t find any looming danger to their health and safety.” Geren made his comments at Fort Bragg, N.C., which became the flash point for the Army’s latest move to upgrade the conditions of its old barracks after a Soldier’s video of his run-down barracks ended up on YouTube.

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