There’s a little less than two months left in the Wisconsin National Guard’s 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s mission in Iraq.

The team’s 3,200-plus soldiers, operating throughout Iraq performing many different missions, includes the Kenosha-based Company B, 257th Brigade Support Battalion.

Capt. Sean Phelps, Oak Creek, reported that Bravo Company is “happy, healthy and ready to finish strong.”

Phelps said the detainee guard-force mission on Forward Operating Base Cropper has proved to be both challenging and rewarding.

“Even though the weather has started to cooperate, the days are still long, and work is still exhausting,” Phelps said.

The Kenosha-based soldiers are also helping to train a corps of Iraqi correctional officers who will take over Cropper’s internment facility when U.S. forces eventually depart.

“Even though we will turn this mission over to another unit soon, it’s exciting to know our initial efforts will help advance the Iraqi corrections system to a level consistent with our standards of dignity and respect,” Phelps said.

Bravo Company has in its ranks one of the nation’s newest citizens.

Sgt. Anna Duncan, Minneapolis, was sworn in as a citizen of the United States of America during a Veterans Day naturalization ceremony at Al-Faw Palace near Baghdad.

Duncan, a native of the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, was among more than 150 service members who became U.S. citizens at the event hosted by Multi National Corps-Iraq commander Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr.