Joe Bellant of St. Ignace, a staff sergeant in the Air Force, was deployed to Korea Monday, December 5.

Mr. Bellant will be serving 12 months at Kunsan Air Force Base, then hopes to be transferred to Germany. He had been stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

This is Mr. Bellant’s second tour of duty to Korea. He served 12 months there in 2000.

He is the son of Fran and the late Joyce Bellant of St. Ignace and was graduated from LaSalle High School in 1998.