North Carolina

Guardsman demoted after mud wrestling

A female member of a National Guard military police unit was demoted for indecent exposure after a mud-wrestling party at the Army-run Camp Bucca detention center in Iraq, a military spokesman said Sunday.

The party occurred Oct. 30, as the 160th Military Police Battalion, an Army Reserve Unit from Tallahassee, Fla., prepared to turn over its duties to the Asheville-based 105th Military Police Battalion, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, spokesman at Camp Bucca.

In the course of the transfer, “some individuals in their exuberance decided to put together a mud-wrestling thing,” Johnson said Sunday by telephone.

Following an inquiry, a soldier was demoted, he said.

Johnson did not release the name of the demoted soldier. However, she was identified by the Daily News as Deanna Allen, 19, and the identification was confirmed by her mother, Ladyna Waldrop of Black Mountain.

Allen is still a guard at the camp, the newspaper said.