Photograph: Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters 5.33pm GMT Marines load their bags into a truck before deploying to Afghanistan at Camp Pendleton, California.
Reservists assigned to General Chiarelli mobilized alongside active-duty First Cavalry troops at Fort Hood, Tex., before deploying to Iraq.
The Pentagon said these units would be mobilized in the coming months for more training before deploying to the Persian Gulf.
Before deploying to Cuba, Bumgarner oversaw the development of detention doctrine at the Army's Military Police School at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
After returning from his last deployment in Iraq, he had difficulty reintegrating, according to the reports, but officials said he "worked through" those issues before deploying to Afghanistan.
Before deploying to Iraq, Steele announced that Rakkasans would not be firing warning shots: they would shoot to disable or kill.
He had been planning to propose to his girlfriend next month before deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan in January, relatives told The Salt Lake Tribune and The Deseret News.
Douglas Laux, a case officer from Indiana, had studied Pashto, the language spoken in southern Afghanistan, before deploying to Kandahar, in 2010.
Before deploying to Iraq, Colonel Reese served as the director of the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the Army's premier intellectual center.
He texted that he would give up his parental rights, and later, before deploying to Iraq, he signed a document agreeing to the adoption.
Just this week, the first of 1,700 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division hugged their loved ones goodbye before deploying to Iraq.
