Army Spc. William M. Harris Jr., a unit supply specialist with the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regimen, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan., will deploy with the “Dagger” Brigade for nine months to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The unit’s mission is to support trusted regional partners with bilateral and multilateral military exercises and theater security cooperation activities in the Central Command area of responsibility.

Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name given to anti-terrorism military operations involving U.S. troops and allied coalition partners. Active duty and reserve component members from all branches of the U.S. armed forces have been deployed to support the war against global terrorism outside the borders of the United States. U.S. troops serve in South, Southwest and Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa, islands in the Pacific, and Europe.

Harris, the son of Annette Harris of Staten Island, N.Y., is a 2009 Auburn Mountainview High School graduate.