Army National Guard Spec. Benjamin T. Everett of Fort Fairfield has been mobilized and activated for a future deployment to an undisclosed overseas location in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the people of Iraq.

Everett is normally assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 172 Mountain Infantry, Brewer.

He is a 2003 graduate of Fort Fairfield High School and is the son of Dwight and Susan Everett of Fort Fairfield.