The Bangor-based 169th MP Company is headed for Iraq.

The alert order arrived Friday, said Maj. Gen. Bill Libby, Maine’s adjutant general.

About 35 soldiers from across Maine – including Lewiston-Auburn – will be activated on July 1 and leave for Fort Dix, N.J. on July 6.

They will be gone for a year.

Leaders of the Maine Army National Guard were told about six weeks ago that the company’s two platoons might be activated this summer.

“We have put them through all the processing and medical stuff that we normally put our soldiers through if they are mobilized and deployed,” Libby said earlier.

The 169th MP Company has about 91 members. However, many are still completing their training, making them ineligible for active duty.

Of the 35 remaining soldiers, several have deployed before, he said.

The soldiers have been readying themselves for more than a month.