Facebook Twitter Email
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2003

An Army National Guard unit with at least 24 tribal members was deployed to Kuwait last Wednesday, The Navajo Times reports.

The 2220th Transportation Company has Navajo, Hopi and Apache tribal members. Geri Kee-Yazzie, the wife of Sgt. Roland Yazzie, said her husband and other members welcome donations of telephone cards, beef jerky, baby wipes, lip balm, candy, gum, sunflower seeds, local newspapers and other non-perishable items.

Items can be sent to Sgt. Yazzie, Roland, 2220th Transportation Company, 2nd Platoon, APO, AE, 09366.

Get the Story:
Navajos, Hopis, Apaches deployed (The Navajo Times 4/3)

Related Stories:
Blackfeet tribal members march for troops (4/3)
Data: More than 12,000 Natives in military (4/2)
Mont. tribe holds ceremony for members in military (4/1)
Lakota woman: President Bush held my hand (03/27)
S.D. Natives react to fighting in Iraq (03/21)
Mont. tribal members turn to prayer in time of war (03/20)
Navajo vice president addresses Iraq war (03/20)
N.D. tribe holds ceremony for its troops (03/10)