http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MOTHER_DAUGHTER_DEPLOYMENT?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-08-10-21-10-38Sgt. 1st Class Brenda Berrios and Sgt. Karissa Smith never leave home without their beauty products, not even when the mother and daughter are bound for Kuwait, as part of their deployment with a Salem-based Oregon National Guard unit. "We're girls' girls," said daughter Smith, 24. "We always put makeup on and do our hair," her mother, 43, added.
Neither imagined they would be deploying together. Brenda originally didn't think she was eligible, and Karissa was in another unit. But soon after Karissa volunteered for deployment, Brenda received news that she had been cleared to go.
"It's a little more comforting that they are not going to Iraq or Afghanistan," said Doug Beddor, Brenda's father and Karissa's grandfather. "But you never know."
Once in Kuwait, the company's mission will be tracking soldiers' records, including promotions, insurance forms and emergency notifications.
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