Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Guess he didn't want to go......

According to the Associated Press an Iraq-bound Kentucky soldier and two guns missing from Camp Shelby

The AP reports that authorities are searching for a Kentucky National Guardsman who disappeared from Camp Shelby, Mississippi, while he was training for a deployment to Iraq. Officials say two guns are also missing. Private First Class Ryan Longnecker was at Camp Shelby with the Kentucky National Guard's Battery B, Second Battalion, 138th Field Artillery unit. Post spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Doril Sanders says Longnecker was discovered missing on Monday. Sanders says a nine millimeter pistol and M4 semiautomatic rifle were also unaccounted for. The Kentucky unit has been training at Camp Shelby since early June. The troops will be headed to Iraq within the next two weeks.

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