Story by Staff Sgt. Carmen Fleischmann | Florida National Guard Public Affairs Office | 04.25.2018
Hundreds of Plant City residents, leaders, family members and friends gathered around a small formation at the historic Milton E. Hull Armory on the Plant City Strawberry Festival Fairgrounds. Their local Florida National Guard unit, Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 116th Field Artillery, is deploying to South-Central Asia for a year-long mission in support of Operation Freedom Sentinel....
Courtesy Story | Florida National Guard Public Affairs Office | 01.07.2014
More than 300 soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 116th Field Artillery (FA) Regiment, and its subordinate units, commanded by Lt. Col. David S. Pellett, were graciously greeted by over 1,000 family and friends as they arrived by bus from Camp Shelby, Miss., on Sunday afternoon at the Plant City Strawberry Festival Grounds. The tight knit community of Plant City eagerly hosted the redeployment of......
Story by Spc. Samuel Soza | 1st Infantry Division | 07.27.2010
During several ceremonies in Babil and Wasit provinces, July 25, U.S. forces handed over three bases to the Iraqi government...
Story by Senior Airman Jenifer Calhoun | 380th Air Expeditionary Wing | 02.24.2010
Thousands of miles from Hillsborough County and his hometown of Plant City, Fla., Airman 1st Class Joshua Willis puts on his "battle rattle" every day to set out with his fellow security forces to secure areas of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing. Airman Willis is a security forces journeyman with the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia. He is......
