'Senior Defense Official': 14,000 National Guard soldiers part of planning for deployments through 2010

The Pentagon has identified some 14,000 National Guard soldiers who may go to Iraq as part of planning for deployments stretching as far as 2010, a senior U.S. defense official said on Friday.

Some of the Guard soldiers, part of the U.S. military's reserve component, may face deployment far sooner than the Pentagon's goal of five years at home for every year they are mobilized, the official said.

But the official, speaking on condition of anonymity as no announcement has yet been made, said more than two-thirds of the soldiers had not previously been deployed.

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