Sgt. 1st class Vital Silva, of Green Bay, consoles his eight-year-old son Colton Silva shortly before boarding a bus at the Wisconsin National Guard Armory in Grand Chute, WI. Silva and about 70 members of the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 2nd Battalion 127th Infantry headed for Fort McCoy where they departed for Camp Shelby, Mississippi to train before heading over seas for active duty in the war in Iraq.