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Deploying 76th
Brigade receives new commander
Staff Sgt. Jeff Lowry
EDINBURGH,
Ind.
-- Indiana National Guard troops welcomed Col. Courtney P. Carr to
his new post as 76th Brigade Combat Team commander in a change of
command ceremony Saturday at
Camp Atterbury.
In his brief remarks Carr thanked his family: "Thank you for your
sacrifices," he said. "Without your sacrifices, I would not be able
to walk with these great American Soldiers."
In April the Department of the Army alerted the
76th for an Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment. It is now scheduled
for spring 2008.
The Brigade's mobilization would be
the largest single deployment of the Indiana National Guard Soldiers
since World War II.
The 76th BCT, headquartered in
Indianapolis,
has 3,400 Soldiers throughout the state.
Carr, 46, who joined the Indiana Guard in 1991,
replaces Brig. Gen. David L. Harris, who will assume command of the
81st Troop Command.
Indiana National Guard commander, Maj. Gen. R.
Martin Umbarger, thanked Harris for a job well done and noted
that Carr is a driven Soldier.
"He's top-notch. He's a Guardsman through and
through," said Umbarger.
Carr is a 1983 graduate of the U.S. Military
Academy. As a battalion commander of the 1-151 Infantry Battalion,
headquartered in New Albany,
Ind.,
he deployed to Bosnia
in support of Operation Joint Forge.
Carr is the executive director for the Economic Development Board
for Columbus,
Ind.
He lives there with his wife, Beth; and their two children, Reagan
and Evan.
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