According to published accounts, Army National Guard Spec. Kyle B. Brown has been mobilized and activated at Fort Dix, N.J., for a deployment overseas to a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Brown is a member of the 1175th Military Police Company, a national guard unit based in St. Clair.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq.

Mission objectives are focused on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.
Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also assisting in rebuilding Iraq’s economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in defending and preserving Iraq’s sovereignty and independence as a democracy.
Brown, a military policeman, has served for five years.

He is the son of Keith B. Brown of Champion City Road, Gerald, and Gretchen L. Brown of Parkwood Place, St. Louis.

The specialist is a 2004 graduate of Cleveland High School, St. Louis.