When Governor Sonny Perdue visited Georgia Guardsmen in Iraq in November, one of the first groups of Soldiers he unexpectedly saw was the 124th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment from Atlanta.

The public affairs unit, which mobilized in September, coordinated the televised press conference featuring Perdue and the other Governors he travel with. The 124th MPAD is assigned to the Coalition Press Information Center (CPIC) in the International Green Zone in Baghdad.

The unit has been assigned a number of high-level public affairs missions including coordinating embedded reporters and publishing the Scimitar, the weekly newsletter for Multi-National Force-Iraq.

The 124th MPAD also coordinates the DOD video feeds coming from Iraq, including the courtroom footage of the Saddam Hussein trial.

Read the Scimitar and other publications from the theater on-line at
 http://mnf-iraq.com/Publications_theater.htm