PA National Guard Unit Could Be Among Last Deployed To Afghanistan

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The 56th Stryker Brigade has been told it could receive alert orders - normally given a year before a deployment - next month. That would line the 3,500-4,000 members of the brigade up for a potential deployment in January 2014. That deployment could last a year, with much of that in country. The current timetable has American forces scheduled to leave Afghanistan at the end of 2014. The final decisions would be up to the Defense Department. The Stryker Brigade last deployed to Iraq in 2009.