NY Father, Daughter to Deploy Together to Afghanistan

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) —

Miranda Mogg spent her childhood joining her father after he was assigned to a new U.S. military post. This time they’re headed overseas together.

The 21-year-old Army soldier and her father, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Michael Mogg, 47, are both assigned to the brigade’s headquarters.

“If you’re going to go to war, you should go with people you know,” she said. “It’s surreal. I grew up with him always away, and now I get a chance to be out there.”

The elder Mogg is the helicopter unit’s master gunner. Miranda is an intelligence analyst.

“For once she gets to tell me what to do,” joked Michael Mogg.

It will be his fifth deployment and her first. But despite his enthusiasm, Michael said his daughter would likely squeal on him if he eats the wrong things.

An Army spokesman said the service doesn’t track parent-child deployments so it doesn’t have information on similar situations.

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