As you know if you've been keeping up, my unit is deploying for Afghanistan. When a unit deploys, or inactivates or moves, they "case their colors" in the previous location, and uncase them downrange, at the new location, or not at all if they are inactivating. It is basically planting the flag where the unit is. Here is the article on the 5th Signal Command (our higher headquarters) website:
7th TTSB cases colors for deployment MANNHEIM, Germany (April 27, 2009) – The command team of Col. Randall Bland (left) and Command Sgt. Maj. Terence Farmer (right) from 5th Signal Command's 7th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade headquartered in Mannheim, Germany cased their colors in a ceremony April 27 at the Sports Arena on Sullivan Barracks. The brigade's headquarters element will deploy this spring for up to 12 months with approximately 90 Soldiers to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The brigade headquarters will serve as the Joint Network Operations Control Center which is the single control agency for the management of the joint force communications systems in Afghanistan. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathon M. Gray) <--that would be the really good, close up photo! :)
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May the LORD bless them and keep them, may He make His face to shine upon them.
Wow...can you believe how much you've learned about how the military works? There's so much the rest of us don't know.
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