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Two New Mexico National Guard units might be home from Iraq a few months earlier than expected.

A U.S. Army spokeswoman in Baghdad said the units, which are guarding Iraqi detainees at a base near the Baghdad airport, are slated to rotate out in March as the units running the base are replaced by an integrated brigade combat team.

"At this time . . . it looks like this statement will be true," Capt. Lynn Chapp, a spokeswoman for Task Force 134 Detention Operations, said in an e-mail this week. "However, as with everything in the military, we are flexible."

The units, A and C companies of the 1st Battalion of the 200th Infantry, based in Rio Rancho and Las Cruces, deployed to Iraq in September after three months of training in New Jersey. They were expected to remain in Iraq until May.

The two units, which were trained as rifle companies, comprise about 300 soldiers.

Maj. Ken Nava, a spokesman for the New Mexico National Guard, cautioned that the units have not received orders for an early departure.

"Officially, there has been no change," he said.