Gov. Pete Ricketts and Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac, adjutant common of the Nebraska Nationwide Guard, traveled to Kuwait final week for a uncommon abroad change of command from one Nebraska Military Guard staff to a detachment of fellow Nebraskans.
A Kearney-based detachment of the 1057th Army Police Firm relieved a Scottsbluff-based staff of the 1057th at Camp Arifjan Military Base. The Scottsbluff staff deployed in October final yr and is heading dwelling now.
The 1057th has been tasked with securing the bottom and guaranteeing legislation and order. Camp Arifjan is south of Kuwait Metropolis, the capital of a Persian Gulf state that shares its northern and western borders with Iraq and its southern border with Saudi Arabia.
The corporate’s jobs embrace doing background checks and common screening of everybody who works on the bottom, whether or not contractors, navy personnel, State Division diplomats or native service suppliers. Given the big dimension of the bottom, folks enter it daily to supply routine companies akin to delivering meals and provides or gathering trash.
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Talking to the 2 detachments, Ricketts congratulated the primary staff on a profitable deployment and supplied prayers for the “security and success” of the second staff. He famous that Nebraska Guard members not often deployed abroad 25 years in the past, however now put together for and anticipate deployments.
“They’re desirous to help U.S. navy missions overseas, they usually have the coaching and abilities to tackle main obligations,” Ricketts stated.
Bohac joined the governor in thanking the Guard members.
“Though nowhere on our uniform does it say ‘Nebraska’ after we serve abroad with our U.S. Military and U.S. Air Pressure fellows, our troopers and airmen of the Nebraska Nationwide Guard distinguish themselves by their skillful and devoted service,” he stated.
“They symbolize the folks of our nice state exceedingly nicely and make all of us proud.”
The 2 officers had been then headed to Qatar, the place they had been to go to with members of the Nebraska Air Nationwide Guard deployed there. Qatar occupies a peninsula within the Persian Gulf and shares a border with Saudi Arabia.
The Nebraska Guard at the moment has 425 troopers and airmen supporting U.S. navy missions around the globe.
Ricketts left Nebraska on Aug. 1 and returned Aug. 5. He took a industrial flight and paid for it personally, spokeswoman Alex Reuss stated. She described the journey as an official one.