Army Sgt. Christopher P. Garlinger has been mobilized and activated at Fort Dix, N.J., for a deployment overseas to a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The soldier is a member of the 38th Military Police Company, a national guard unit based in Delphi.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.

Garlinger, a military police team leader, has served in the military for nine years. He is the son of Phillip D. Garlinger of Syracuse and Renee A. Duncan of Delphi.

He is a 1998 graduate of Delphi Community High School.