Army Reserve Pvt. Gregory J. Carlisle, a 2007 Copiague High School graduate, has been mobilized and activated for deployment overseas to a forward-operating base in sup­port of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Pvt. Carlisle, a military police member with a year's of military service, is a assigned to the 340th Military Police Company, Bayside.

He is the son of Charles and Betty R. Carl­isle of Amityville. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coali­tion forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. 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 peoples of Iraq. Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also as­sisting in rebuilding Iraq's economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in de­fending and preserving Iraq's sovereignty and independence as a democracy.