Two of the brigades - the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team and the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team - will operate as Brigade Combat Teams, responsible for conducting full-spectrum operations in an assigned battlespace. While Regular Army units deploy for up to 15-month tours, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates directed in January that reserve component units would mobilize for no longer than one year and that they would train and deploy as cohesive units.
The 45th Fires Brigade deployed two battalions to Iraq in 2003.
"Red Thunder" is expected to mobilize in June 2008 and deploy to Iraq in autumn 2008 where it will augment the 29th IBCT in its assigned mission. It includes units from Oklahoma and Utah. In addition to the seven BCTs, Oklahoma's 45th Fires Brigade, based in Enid, is also scheduled to deploy to Iraq. In January 2002, one of the brigade's battalions mobilized in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and deployed to Germany to provide force protection at U.S. The "Prairie" Brigade is expected to deploy in autumn 2008 to Afghanistan, where it will train the Afghan National Army. The 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, headquartered in Decatur, Illinois, will mobilize in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in August 2008. The brigade last deployed to Iraq from February 2004 through February 2005. "Old Hickory" will mobilize in January 2009 and deploy to Iraq in spring 2009. The 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the North Carolina Army National Guard, based in Clinton, includes units from North Carolina and West Virginia. This will be the brigade's first deployment as a unit, although small units from the brigade have previously deployed in support of operation Iraqi Freedom. The brigade, which includes units from across Pennsylvania, is the only Stryker Brigade Combat Team in the Army National Guard, and one of just seven in the Army.
They are expected to mobilize in November 2008 and deploy to Iraq in early 2009. Tracing their lineage to the Associated Regiment of Foot founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1747, "The Associators" of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, are headquartered in Philadelphia. The brigade last deployed to Iraq from March 2004 through March 2005. It is expected to mobilize in August 2008 and deploy to Iraq in autumn 2008. The "Ravens" of Washington's 81st Heavy Brigade Combat Team are based in Seattle, Washington, and includes units from Washington and California. The brigade last deployed to Iraq from December 2004 through December 2005. The "Thunderbolt Brigade" is expected to mobilize in July 2008 and deploy to Iraq in autumn 2008. The 56th Brigade Combat Team of the 36th Infantry Division includes units from across Texas. The "Lava Brigade" served in Iraq from January through December of 2005. The brigade is expected to mobilize in June 2008 and deploy to Iraq in autumn 2008. The 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team is headquartered at Fort Ruger, Hawaii, and includes units from across Hawaii and Arizona. This will be the brigade's first deployment in support of the Global War on Terror. The brigade is expected to mobilize in May 2008 and deploy to Iraq in autumn 2008. The "Jersey Blues" - the 50th Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the New Jersey Army National Guard, based at Fort Dix - includes units from across the state. These units are being informed in advance to provide them the opportunity to plan, conduct world-class training, and to provide some degree of predictability for the Citizen-Soldiers, their Families and their respective employers. More than 20,000 Army National Guard Soldiers are being notified by the Army to prepare for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.
19 the alert of seven Army National Guard Brigade Combat Teams and one Army National Guard Fires Brigade for planned rotations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The Department of the Army today joined the Department of Defense in announcing Oct.
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