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More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (Erin Hannigan/Arizona Army National Guard)

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rallied together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix for a send-off ceremony Sunday.

The company is about to begin a year-long deployment overseas in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (Erin Hannigan/Arizona Army National Guard)

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (Erin Hannigan/Arizona Army National Guard)

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (Erin Hannigan/Arizona Army National Guard)

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (Erin Hannigan/Arizona Army National Guard)

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (Erin Hannigan/Arizona Army National Guard)

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off ceremony Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (Erin Hannigan/Arizona Army National Guard)

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Joe Fleming is a digital editor and occasional reporter for Stars and Stripes. From cops and courts in Tennessee and Arkansas, to the Olympics in Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio and Pyeongchang, he has worked as a journalist for three decades. Both of his sisters served in the U.S. military, Army and Air Force, and they read Stars and Stripes.

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