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U.S. Army National Guard Corporal Juan Falu of the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team is hugged by his sister, Solanch Falu (L) and his mother Lub Falu as they say goodbye to each other during a deployment ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ceremony, honoring the Florida National Guards 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, is the first in a series of company-level and battalion-level deployment ceremonies taking place this week throughout the Florida. The event honored 600 of the nearly 2,500 members of the Florida National Guard's 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team who are being deployed to Kuwait and Iraq, the largest single-unit deployment of Florida National Guard since World War II.

Florida National Guard Unit Deploys To Iraq

( Getty Images / January 5, 2010 )

U.S. Army National Guard Corporal Juan Falu of the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team is hugged by his sister, Solanch Falu (L) and his mother Lub Falu as they say goodbye to each other during a deployment ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ceremony, honoring the Florida National Guards 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, is the first in a series of company-level and battalion-level deployment ceremonies taking place this week throughout the Florida. The event honored 600 of the nearly 2,500 members of the Florida National Guard's 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team who are being deployed to Kuwait and Iraq, the largest single-unit deployment of Florida National Guard since World War II.

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