Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Brian K. Clevenger 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. Clevenger is a member of the 38th Military Police Company, a National Guard unit based in Danville.

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.

Clevenger, a military police member and squad leader, has served in the military for nine years.

He is the son of Joan White of Delphi, and Dan R. Clevenger of Linden.