The 22-year-old stopped short of signing a will, though other members of the 187th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, Ky., chose to do so. After last week's terrorist attacks, Hood said, ''it's one thing people looked at a little different.''

Across the country, the military is in motion as part of President Bush's war on terrorism. Troops at Army bases like Fort Campbell and Marine bases like Camp Lejeune, N.C., are awaiting detailed orders, and Air Force crews and planes have been called up from New Jersey to California.

In Fort Dodge, Iowa, Maj. Jeff Clemens of the Iowa Air National Guard's 133rd Air Squadron worried Friday how to tell his family he was being called up. He told his daughter first; she plays on a high school basketball team he coaches.

Clemens said her response was, ''Oh, really? What's that going to do to basketball?''

''My family is almost calloused to it because I've been in almost 15 years,'' he said.

Deployment orders have been issued to Air Force bases in at least eight states since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast.

The Air Force has been ordered to dispatch more than 100 fighter jets, B-1 and B-52 bombers and tankers to the Persian Gulf. The Pentagon also said more than 5,000 members of the Air Force National Guard and Air Force Reserve have been ordered to active duty.

Barksdale Air Force Base, La. - where the nation's largest contingent of B-52 bombers is gathered - appeared quiet Friday. But the 2nd Bomb Wing and 373 members of the 917th Reserve Wing have been activated; officials aren't saying what their orders are.

In California, three air force bases were given new deployment orders. The call-up includes reserve members at Travis Air Force Base, the Air Force Reserve and refueling tankers at March Air Reserve Base.

At Beale Air Force Base, where high-altitude intelligence-gathering planes are stationed, spokesman Master Sgt. Tim Helton confirmed deployment orders had arrived.

Among other activity Friday:

-Fifty-two members of a reserve squadron at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., trained to protect people, planes and bases, were mobilized.

-Troops were boarding planes at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey for unknown destinations.

-Air refueling tankers were taking off from Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Wash.

-Members of the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, S.C., were flying out, headed for the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Mediterranean.

-Military police from Fort Lewis, Wash., were dispatched to the East Coast to help protect military installations there.

-The 22nd Air Refueling Wing was deploying from McConnell Air Force Base, Kan.

-Air refueling tankers from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., and ground support troops from Patrick Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral, Fla., were being deployed.

There was no official word on whether Hood's regiment would be dispatched to fight terrorists, but if they were, they would be the first soldiers deployed from the 101st Airborne Division.

Spc. Joshua Gaston, 22, who got married two months ago, was wrapping up his paperwork Friday.

''I can go over there and do my job and come home and know everything is OK when I get home,'' Gaston said.