From Deseret News archives:
Guard duty yanks LDS off missions
Idaho unit being shipped off to Iraq this week
Hess, a private first class with the Guard's 116th Cavalry Brigade, learned he was mistaken.
"I thought it was a joke," said Hess, who was serving on a mission in Columbus, Ohio, when he heard the news. "But my mission president pulled me aside and said I might be sent home."
Hess, of Malad, said he and 21 other Guardsmen in his brigade returned from missions, some from as far away as Argentina, after receiving their orders. Hess returned to Idaho on May 25 and leaves this week on a tour that will eventually land him in Iraq.
Lt. Col. Tim Marsano, Idaho Guard spokesman, said the Idaho Guard does not differentiate between its members.
"If the organization is called to active duty, members of that organization should be ready to take the call," he said.
Hess said he knew of no other time when missions were terminated for service orders. He doubts he will return to his mission upon returning from Iraq.
"They wouldn't advise it," he said. "But I could."
In Utah, the Utah National Guard has declined to interrupt current LDS missions of its Guardsmen.
Blackner said Maj. Gen. Brian Tarbet, of Utah, made the call. Soldiers who had not yet been sent on a LDS mission would be deployed with the mobilization of their units, he said.
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