Minnesota National Guard sends 550 soldiers to Middle East in one of state’s largest recent deployments

In his four decades in the Minnesota National Guard, Sgt. Maj. Chris Schlukebier has deployed overseas three times. Each came at a different phase in the Rosemount man’s life and to a different global hot spot: First to Bosnia in 2003 when his children were young, then to Iraq in 2009 – the most difficult deployment, because Iraq was especially dangerous and his three daughters were teenagers – and then to Kuwait in 2018.

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