STORM2K

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:22 pm**

Has anyone else heard of this happening your your city/state? I definitely think it's fair, I'm just surprised.

wwltv.com

Marrero State Senator called up to active military duty

03:08 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. -- State Senator Derrick Shepherd of Marrero has been called to active military duty in the U.S. Army Reserve and is heading to South Korea.

Elected to the Senate post in May after serving in the state House of Representatives, Shepherd is an Army lawyer and holds the rank of captain.

The Senate's communication office said it was unknown how long Shepherd would be in South Korea.

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:55 pm**

Yup, and his story was just on the news this evening. Had to make note of it while I was running around so I'd get back here and post this for ya.

Rick Noriega -- http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/081605 ... riega.html

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:24 am**

Thanks for the link Duckie! Very interesting.

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:19 am**

Never heard of that before. Interesting!

Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:41 am**

Didn't a governor from some state get called up for AD in the Air National Guard or USAFR? I don't know if was SC or somewhere else...or was it Lt. Gov.?

Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:48 pm**

The press secretary for a local WI congressman was called up for active duty. He'll be on active duty until April. (He's a part of my group)