Two Morris County Sheriff's Officers Being Deployed Overseas On Missions With the U.S. Army National Guard
Published on January 29, 2019
Two Morris County Sheriff's Officers who serve the country through the U.S. Army National Guard are being deployed overseas for a year.
Morris County Sheriff's Officer Christopher Murarik (center, with his parents), is being deployed overseas with the U.S. Army National Guard.
Sheriff's Office Detective Thomas Reilly, a National Guardsman since 1996, is being deployed for a second time while Detective Christopher Murarik, a National Guardsman since 2010, faces his first deployment.
Detective Reilly will be overseas on a security mission with Bravo Company, 104th Engineer Battalion. Detective Murarik is being deployed overseas with the 114th Infantry Battalion.
While Tom and Chris are overseas, in brave service to our nation, we will do our very best to be there for their families here, stateside. I remain grateful that they continue to make such an incredible sacrifice for all of us, Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon said.
I'm excited. I'll miss my family, friends and job but I joined the military to give back to my country and now's my chance, Detective Murarik said.
Morris County Sheriff's Officer Thomas Reilly is being deployed overseas with the U.S. Army National Guard.
Detective Reilly said he also joined the Army National Guard to serve his country and is happy, as a father of three children, that his year overseas won't involve missing major milestones in their lives.
It will be rough being away but I'll be able to FaceTime and message with them, Reilly said.
If I wasn't in the National Guard, chances are I'd never on my own travel (to countries to which he is deployed), he said.
Detective Reilly previously was deployed for one year “ between June 2008 and June 2009 “ to Baghdad, Iraq, with the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
A Morris County Sheriff's Officer for 16 years, Reilly has served in most of the office's sections, including courthouse protective services, the K-9 and Bomb Sections, and warrants, his most recent duty. He previously was employed by the State Department of Corrections as an officer at Trenton State Prison.
Detective Murarik, who also worked for the state Department of Corrections for more than two years before joining the Morris County Sheriff's Office Bureau of Law Enforcement in the summer of 2017, spent the last year in the Sheriff's Office's K-9 Section as a handler for K-9 Oliver.
Both detectives will undergo pre-mobilization training in February before being flown to their respective missions overseas.