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01-02-06, 02:08 PM
One comes home, another heading out
Michael_Reagan@TimesRecord.Com
01/02/2006
The Times Record
BRUNSWICK — A few members of the Brunswick Police Department have had divided duties between Maine and Iraq, with another police officer scheduled to be deployed early this year.
By early 2006, Officer Russell Wrede will return after more than a year's deployment there with the Marines and Officer Nehemiah Nattress could end up in Iraq with the Army, said Brunswick Police Chief Jerry Hinton.
Wrede had retired from the United State Marine Corps after 20 years and joined the Brunswick Police Department in 2000. War in Iraq intruded.
"They pulled him back into the Marine Corps," Hinton said.
Wrede's unit is training Iraqi police officers. Nattress graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in December and the Army reserves officer will be deployed in January, possibly to Iraq, Hinton said.
By Dec. 1, the department had used around $46,500 of the $85,000 allotted for overtime with six months left in the financial year to fill the voids left by officers. Shifts have gone partially staffed as well, Hinton said.
"It takes away from the public safety and kind of runs the other folks who are here a little ragged also," Hinton said.
A couple of police officers have served abroad in the military and returned. Officer Edward Yurek served in Iraq with the Army for a year training Iraqi police officers and Officer Gregory Mears was stationed in Okinawa during his deployment with the Marines.
No member of the Brunswick Police Department has been injured in the line of duty while in Iraq.
From 2004 to 2005, the Maine State Police has had four troopers who have served in the armed forces in Iraq and returned, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Another trooper is scheduled to be deployed in February and could be sent to Iraq, he said.
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a number of state troopers have been called to serve overseas and in the United States as part of their work in the National Guard or reserves.
Members of the Brunswick police department have sent packages of books, candy and cookies to the officers while they have been abroad. A large sign also hangs in the police department lobby wishing Wrede a safe return.
Ellie
Michael_Reagan@TimesRecord.Com
01/02/2006
The Times Record
BRUNSWICK — A few members of the Brunswick Police Department have had divided duties between Maine and Iraq, with another police officer scheduled to be deployed early this year.
By early 2006, Officer Russell Wrede will return after more than a year's deployment there with the Marines and Officer Nehemiah Nattress could end up in Iraq with the Army, said Brunswick Police Chief Jerry Hinton.
Wrede had retired from the United State Marine Corps after 20 years and joined the Brunswick Police Department in 2000. War in Iraq intruded.
"They pulled him back into the Marine Corps," Hinton said.
Wrede's unit is training Iraqi police officers. Nattress graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in December and the Army reserves officer will be deployed in January, possibly to Iraq, Hinton said.
By Dec. 1, the department had used around $46,500 of the $85,000 allotted for overtime with six months left in the financial year to fill the voids left by officers. Shifts have gone partially staffed as well, Hinton said.
"It takes away from the public safety and kind of runs the other folks who are here a little ragged also," Hinton said.
A couple of police officers have served abroad in the military and returned. Officer Edward Yurek served in Iraq with the Army for a year training Iraqi police officers and Officer Gregory Mears was stationed in Okinawa during his deployment with the Marines.
No member of the Brunswick Police Department has been injured in the line of duty while in Iraq.
From 2004 to 2005, the Maine State Police has had four troopers who have served in the armed forces in Iraq and returned, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Another trooper is scheduled to be deployed in February and could be sent to Iraq, he said.
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a number of state troopers have been called to serve overseas and in the United States as part of their work in the National Guard or reserves.
Members of the Brunswick police department have sent packages of books, candy and cookies to the officers while they have been abroad. A large sign also hangs in the police department lobby wishing Wrede a safe return.
Ellie