Fort Leavenworth MPs ready to ship off to Iraq

? More than 100 soldiers from a Fort Leavenworth military police unit are preparing to head to Iraq this fall.

A deployment ceremony was scheduled Wednesday for members of the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 705th Military Police Internment and Resettlement Battalion. The event takes place at the Lewis and Clark Center on the northeast Kansas post.

The units will help with confining and resettling detainees and training Iraqi corrections officers.