Byline: Mary Fortune
Aug. 4--Penny Arnold said she would go "to the ends of the Earth" to see her husband before he deploys to Iraq, and it is starting to look as though she might have to get going.
Soldiers with the Tennessee National Guard's 1/181st Field Artillery Battalion training at Fort Bliss, Texas, are scheduled to take a few days of leave at the end of August before they deploy to Iraq. But most of the 345 soldiers must provide their own transportation -- a prospect that is out of reach for many of their families.
"I'm upset that our military can't find our guys a way home," said Mrs. Arnold, a Cleveland, Tenn., resident whose husband is …
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