Army Reserve 1st Lt. Andrew K. Sneegas has been mobilized and activated for deployment overseas to a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sneegas, a platoon leader with six years of military service, is normally assigned to the 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort George G. Meade, Laurel, Md.

He is a 2003 graduate of Free State High School and the son of Stanley and Barbara Sneegas, Lawrence.