Army Pfc. Noah C. Coleman has deployed to Iraq to serve in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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.
Coleman is an automated logistics specialist normally assigned to the 249th Quartermaster Company at Fort Bragg, NC.  The private first class has served in the military for one year.
He is the son of Noah C. Coleman of Bryan St., Summerville, S.C.