A unit of the South Dakota National Guard is gearing up for deployment.

A deployment ceremony will be held for 162 Soldiers of the South Dakota Army National Guard's 155th Engineer Company on Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 2 p.m. (MDT) at the Rapid City Civic Center's Barnett Arena.

The Rapid City and Wagner-based unit will deploy to Kuwait for one year in   The 155th's headquarters is located in Rapid City and its Detachment 1 in Wagner.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard, U.S. Senators John Thune and Michael Rounds, Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender and Maj. Gen. Tim Reisch, SDNG adjutant general will all be in attendance.

A community recognition ceremony will also be held for the unit's Detachment 1 in Wagner on Tuesday, Aug. 11 at 2 p.m. (CDT) at the Wagner High School. Planned speakers for the ceremony include Wagner Mayor Donald Hosek.

The 155th is a vertical engineer company capable of providing engineer support in the construction of base camps and internment facilities, as well as constructing, repairing and maintaining other vertical infrastructures in support of units within a brigade combat team, division or corps.

The unit will report to Fort Bliss, Texas, to complete several weeks of theater-specific training prior to deployment overseas. This will be the second mobilization for the 155th, which deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Noble Eagle in 2002-2003.

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