NJ Guardsmen Carmen Villegas and Victor Hernandez were married today in a civil ceremony at the Nutley Boro Hall, just weeks before Villegas' deployment to Texas for training before shipping off to Iraq.
Villegas serves in the same unit as her son, Filipe Diaz, also deploying to Iraq. This is perhaps the first time ever a mother and son have deployed together -in the same unit.
The couple will be separated for nearly two years, as they will not be deploying at the same time. He is with a different company that deploys in December. She leaves in June.
To learn more, see The Record's NJ at War series.
NJ AT WAR; A wedding, then off to war
