Overseas deployment might soon be in the future for Staff Sgt. Jefferson Hoyle and the National Guard 211^th Military Police Company, headquartered in Clyde.

The 211^th MP Company and the 210^th MP Company, headquartered in Franklin, have both received alert orders to prepare for a mission overseas, although they do not yet know where or what that mission might be.

“It means that we’ve been alerted, that we’ve been sourced for deployment and that the possibility of deployment is a very real thing,” Hoyle, a father of two and a nursing student at HCC, said.

While deployment is not a certainty, both the 210^th and 211^th will start to escalate their training in preparation for the possibility.

“An alert order comes down when Army leaders find the best, most economical fit for a mission,” said ...