WAY TO GO GUARD GUYS. One advantage of the Guard and Reserves...they have roots in towns and cities across the USA. And those roots pay off.

FARGO - Donations have paid for a satellite phone and hundreds of minutes of phone time, to try to speed up communication between the soldiers in Iraq and relatives back home.

"We went out and found some big-time donations to buy a satellite phone," said Doug Spieker, a spokesman for the support group for the Fargo-based 142nd Engineer Combat Battalion.

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