Five years ago, no one would have ever imagined that American troops stationed in the Tactical Platform Division (TPD) of the National Security Agency (NSA) would be faced with the difficult task of deploying a team to a foreign combat zone. Deployment Team Eagle, a team of 20 U. S. Army, Marines and civilian contractors, have been tasked with a three-month tour of duty to Iraq in-order-to provide support to Operational Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In October 2005, TPD received about a 90-day notice that the section was selected to rotate into a combat zone that exists a half a world away; a dif…
