Local guardsmen prepare for year-long deployment to Iraq

Friday, September 10, 2010

Idaho National Guardsmen completed key training this week.

As the U.S. withdrew last week the last U.S. forces tasked for combat operations in Iraq, the Idaho National Guard is preparing to deploy there.

In April, the Department of Defense announced that the Guard's 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team would be mobilized and sent to Iraq later this year. Included in the deployment will be elements of Company C, 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, the combat engineers assigned to the Mountain Home Armory.

The "non-combat" operation, consisting of some 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and known as Operation New Dawn, began Sept. 1. On that date, all combat-related missions performed by coalition forces in Iraq were expected to be undertaken by the Iraqi military.

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"...Throughout the 19th century the size of the Regular Army was small, and the militia provided the bulk of the troops during the Mexican War, the early months of the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. In 1903, important national defense legislation increased the role of the National Guard (as the militia was now called) as a Reserve force for the U.S. Army. In World War I, which the U.S. entered in 1917, the National Guard made up 40% of the U.S. combat divisions in France; in World War II, National Guard units were among the first to deploy overseas and the first to fight..."

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God Speed to all those deploying.

-- Posted by MrMister on Sat, Sep 11, 2010, at 1:41 PM
As a wife to one of the men leaving to serve our country, I appreciate all that other families (like ours) are sacrificing to defend our borders before it comes to our borders. Thank you for your blessings.

-- Posted by armywife1022 on Wed, Sep 15, 2010, at 1:05 PM

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