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Spc. Ryan Kreger of Manalapan plants a kiss on daughter, Isabella, 4, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

He is one of 462 soldiers leaving for a yearlong deployment in Qatar. PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST — Nearly fiveyears after their last major deployment to Iraq, NewJersey National Guard troops are headed back to theMiddle East.

The operation is a long-planned security mission toQatar — but it comes as the region is newly aflame withsectarian conflict as Sunni extremists extend their con-trol in Iraq.

“It’s a real shame because we put a lot of effort and

resources into trying to help them. I had friends whodied in Iraq,” said Sgt. Dylan Walsh of Toms River, a fireteam leader with the Freehold-based First Battalion ofthe 114th Infantry, whose families and friends saw themoff in a ceremony Wednesday. “Everything we’ve doneover there seems to be falling apart.”

Some 462 soldiers are leaving today for 30 days oftraining at Fort Bliss, in the Texas and New Mexico des-ert, for the yearlong deployment. The battalion’s threecompanies will perform force protection, security, gate

GUARD HEADS TO MIDEAST 

Security detail in Qatar as region

is engulfed in sectarian warfare

National Guard members salute during a farewellceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Scan the QR code for a video and visitAPP.com for a photo gallery of thefarewell ceremony.

INSIDEFor stories on veterans’ struggles as they returnfrom deployment to civilian life, see Page A18.

By Kirk Moore @kirkmooreapp

SeeGUARD,Page A18

“My mother is scared. I tell her we’ll be fine. We’ll do the mission and

be back.”

SGT. DYLAN WALSH,Toms River resident and member of the N.J. National Guard unit deploying to Qatar

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JACKSON — After eight months of deliberation, thetownship Zoning Board on Wednesday rejected a pro-posal to build a two-story, 400-student all-girls Ortho-dox Jewish high school on Cross Street, along Jackson’seastern boundary with Lakewood.

Questioning the size of the 7.5-acre parcel for theschool, the sufficiency of the proposed septic systemand traffic impacts in the residential neighborhood of1-acre lots, board members unanimously voted againstthe proposal at 9:45 p.m. The application was first heardby the board last October. Wednesday night was thefifth and final hearing on the plan.

Board member Kathryn McIlhinney said of her deci-sion: “It will change the basic character of what should

Orthodox school isrejectedCrowd applauds as decision on

controversial plan is announcedBy Amanda Oglesby @oglesbyAPP

and Brett Bodner @brettbodner

Audience at the Jackson Township Zoning Board hearingon the school proposal. ROBERT WARD/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

SeeREJECTED, Page A19

HOLMDEL — The township will bring in $103 millionover the next 30 years through a tax abatement agree-ment on the Bell Labs-Lucent property, about $71 mil-lion more in taxes than the municipality would havethrough conventional taxation, according to township

officials.On average, the township would bring in about $2.4million more a year than it would have through tradi-tional property tax revenue, according to municipal of-ficials. But school officials questioned whether the planwas the right move for the district, which will receiveno revenue through payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT,plans.

Township Committee members unanimously ap-proved the abatement Tuesday for Somerset Holmdel

Holmdel OKs tax break for Bell LabsredevelopmentBy Larry Higgs @APPLarry

SeeBREAK,Page A6

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s administration issaying New Jersey is “at the brink of fiscal disaster.”

The sobering declaration of New Jersey’s dire finan-cial status was part of a court filing in which the stateasked a Superior Court judge to not order it to put near-ly $2.5 billion more into the public workers’ pensionfunds over the next 13 months.

N.J. ‘at brink of fiscal disaster’By Michael Symons @MichaelSymons_

SeeDISASTER, Page A19

INSIDEFor a story on the state budget battle, see Page A8.

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