[Vision2020] DOD Announces Replacement Unit for Iraq Rotation

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the US Defense Department at:

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13484

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DOD Announces Replacement Unit for Iraq Rotation

The Department of Defense announced today a replacement unit mobilized to
deploy as part of the force rotation in support of Operation New Dawn.
Approximately 2,700 soldiers from the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team
headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with elements in Montana and Oregon, will
deploy in the fall of 2010.

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Units of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team

    * 2-116 Armored Cavalry (M1A1)
              * Headquarters
              * A Company - Emmett
              * B Company - Burley
              * C Company - Boise
              * D Company - Boise


    * 3-116 Armored Cavalry (M1A1)
              * HHC
              * Company A - Ontario
              * Company B - Hermiston
              * Company C - The Dalles

    * 1-163 Mechanized Infantry
              * HHC
              * A Company (BFV) - Billings
              * B Company (BFV) - Great Falls
              * C Company (BFV) - Missoula

    * 1-148 Field Artillery
              * Headquarters
              * Battery A - Blackfoot
              * Battery B - Logan, UT [UT ARNG]
              * Battery C - Rexburg
              * Service Battery - Idaho Falls

    * 116th Engineer Battalion
              * HHC - Boise
              * A Company - Post Falls
              * B Company - Moscow
              * C Company - Post Falls

    * 145th Support Battalion
              * HHC
              * A Company (S&T) - Nampa
              * B Company (MAINT)- Boise
              * C Company (MED) - Boise

    * 216th MI Company

    * G Troop, 82nd Cavalry [OR ARNG]
              * HHC
              * E Trp (Lt Cav, 41st IB(L)) - Woodburn
              * F Trp (Lt Cav, 29th IB(L)) - Lebanon
              * G Trp (Hvy Cav, 116th CB) - Redmond

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Footnote . . .

M1A1 - M1A1 Bradley Tanks

BFV - Bradley Fighting Vehicles (former "office" of Yours Truly)

Pro patria.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho