Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will be among those attending the deployment ceremony for the 548th Transportation Company scheduled for Monday afternoon.
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Gov. Nixon has been added to the list of dignitaries who will make remarks at the ceremony, set for 3 p.m. at the Ketcham Community Center on the campus of North Central Missouri College. The public is invited to attend the ceremony, after which the 170 citizen-soldiers will depart for Kansas City International Airport. They will go to Fort Bliss, TX for several weeks of final instruction before departing for a year-long deployment to Afghanistan. Since March 7, the unit has been conducting pre-deployment training at Camp Clark in Nevada.