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MEDIA ADVISORY
For more information, please contact the Texas Adjutant General's State Public Affairs Office at 512-782-5620 or email
at ng.tc.txarng.mbx.pao@mail.mil.
Inquires should be sumbmitted via email or the contact form available on our website: www.txmf.us.
FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLIC RELEASE:
36th Infantry Division Concludes Annual training
CAMP MABRY, Texas (June 30, 2014)- The 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard, is concluding its annual training with units from all over Texas leaving Fort Hood and other areas beginning July 31, 2014.
This training will put a lot of Soldiers on Texas roads and hoghways as they convoy to and from training, explained Col. Jim Nugent, 36th Infantry Division chief of staff.
"We ask our fellow Texans to take care in passing convoys and even single military vehicles on our roads. Please be aware that our equipment has the same blind spots and longer stopping distances common to all large trucks and give them a little extra space."
Over the last ten years, the Texas Military Forces has trained and mobilized more than 30,000 Soldiers across the state of Texas in support of combat operations and natural disaster relief.
For more information regarding the 36th Infantry Division's annual training, contact the Texas Military Forces Public Affairs Office at 512-782-5620.
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The mission of the Texas Military Forces (TXMF) is to provide the Governor and the President with ready and trained forces in support of the citizens of Texas and State and Federal civil/military authorities at home and abroad.
The Texas Military Forces are commanded by the Adjutant General of Texas, the state's senior military offical appointed by the governor, and is comprised of the Texas Military Department (formely the Adjutant General's Department), the Texas Army National Guard (TXARNG), the Texas AIr National Gaurd (TXANG), the Texas State Guard (TXSG) and the Domestic Operations Command (DOMOPS).
Texas Military Forces Public Affairs
P.O. Box 5218, Building 10
Camp Mabry (Austin), Texas 78703