Area guardsmen get sendoff before deployment overseas

Family members snap photos of Sgt. Andrew Sanchez of Defiance, holding his son Lennox, 2, as another soldier hands Lennox a ball after a ‘call to duty’ ceremony Wednesday at Bowling Green State University for the Ohio National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry Regiment. About 360 soldiers are mobilizing at Fort Bliss in Texas before being deployed to the Mideast to aid primarily in the training of the Jordanian Armed Forces.