Lowcountry reserve medical unit mobilized

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - About 45 doctors, dentists, nurses and others who are members of the 7224th Medical Support Unit, an Army Reserve outfit, are being mobilized and will report to Fort Stewart, Ga., this weekend, an official said. <br> <br> The unit is based at the Army Reserve Center at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station South Annex. <br> <br> Army Reserve spokesman Maj. William Nutter refused to speculate on where the reservists might be sent after they go to Fort Stewart. <br> <br> In recent months, many reservists have been called up to serve in positions in domestic posts and forts, allowing the military to deploy active-duty forces overseas as the specter of war with Iraq looms. <br> <br> The Air Force announced Wednesday that a squadron of F-16 attack jets and its support team from Shaw Air Force Base will deploy shortly to the Persian Gulf area. But the exact time of the departure of the 77th Fighter Squadron and its maintenance unit was not announced. <br> <br> The active-duty Army&#39;s 3rd Infantry Division, based at Fort Stewart, received orders last week to deploy to the Persian Gulf. <br> <br> Members of the 841st Transportation Battalion, an active-duty unit at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station, have been in Savannah, Ga., since last week supervising the loading of two oceangoing military transports. <br> <br> And another Charleston-area reserve unit, the 1189th Terminal Transportation Brigade, has been in Georgia, operating the military port in Savannah.

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