Navy Constructionman Kenneth E. Phillips, Jr, son of Karen L. Phillips of Walnutport, and Kenneth E. Phillips of Whitehall, recently began an almost five-month deployment to Afghanistan while assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 133, homeported at Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Miss. NMCB-133's primary mission on deployment will be providing construction support to improve the living and working quarters for the 30,000 troops needed in Afghanistan.
