• Who: 150 members of Battery A of the 1-188th Air Defense Artillery Battalion, based in Bismarck and Grand Forks.
• What: Send-off for troops preparing for deployment to Afghanistan.
• When: 11 a.m. today.
• Where: Grand Forks Armed Forces Reserve Center, 1501 48th St. S.
• Why: To wish them well. The soldiers leave Sunday for Fort Lewis, Wash.; in January, they'll deploy to Afghanistan for a year.
If you can make it today, you should.