Army Sgt. Vincent O. Spottedcalf, a company fire support sergeant with 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan., is deploying with the “Dagger” Brigade for nine months to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The unit’s mission is to support trusted regional partners with bilateral and multilateral military exercises and theater security cooperation activities in the Central Command area of responsibility.
Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name given to anti-terrorism military operations involving U.S. troops and allied coalition partners. Active duty and reserve component members from all branches of the U.S. armed forces have been deployed to support the war against global terrorism outside the borders of the United States. U.S. troops serve in South, Southwest and Central Asia, the Arabian peninsula, the Horn of Africa, islands in the Pacific, and Europe.
Spottedcalf is the grandson of Betty Burns of Fallon. He is a 2005 graduate of Churchill County High School.
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