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March 31, 2006

New general to take over R.I. Guard in ceremony Sunday

PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri will formally transfer command of the Rhode Island National Guard in a ceremony Sunday on the State House lawn.

Although he was hired last month, Brig. Gen. Robert Bray will be officially introduced at 2 p.m. Sunday as the head of the Guard, the head of the state Emergency Management Agency, and Rhode Island's liaison to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

There are 384 Rhode Island Guard troops deployed throughout the United States and in four countries, including Iraq, where 95 troops in the 43rd Military Police Brigade are guarding Abu Ghraib and two other prisons.

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