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Photo by Sgt. Fred Brown, 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
Soldiers from 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div., unload tactical vehicles from rail cars in the
Yermo Annex of the U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow in Yermo, Calif.,
Sept. 26, for the brigade’s decisive action rotation at NTC on Fort Irwin.
Photo by Sgt. Fred Brown, 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
Soldiers move Abrams main battle tanks to Fort Hood’s rail yard Sept. 21 before beginning a month-long, decisive action rotation at the National Training Center on Fort Irwin, Calif.
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Soldiers from the 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div., catch a flight Oct. 1 on their way to NTC
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FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Beginning
Oct. 1, more than 5,000 Soldiers
from Fort Hood and other loca-
tions made the trek to the Army’s
National Training Center at Fort
Irwin, California.
Ironhorse Soldiers from the 1st
Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry
Division, along with approximately
1,300 active-duty, Army National
Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers
augmenting the brigade turned out
in force for the rotation that will
certify the brigade for deployments
worldwide. Additional assets include
aviation, military police, special
operations, civil affairs and mobility
augmentation troops.
“For the last six months, we’ve
planned and executed movement for
an armored brigade combat team for
more than 1,600 vehicles and pieces
of equipment, and more than 5,000
personnel from 11 states,” said War-
rant Officer 1 Carlton Huguley, a
mobility technician with 1st BCT.
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contractors involved without loss of
any pieces, and in a very narrow
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based in Weatherford. “For us, this
is our first NTC rotation. Our com-
pany is only about nine years old,
formed after a tank and an engineer
company merged together. Getting
the opportunity to train with a sea-
soned armor brigade in the Army’s
premier training venue is something
you can’t get anywhere else.”
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Soldiers arrived Oct. 1-4 at NTC
and, over the next five days, received
equipment and specialized training
gear like the multiple integrated laser
engagement system for vehicles and
personnel. Once equipped, Soldiers
will spend 14 days in “the box,” an
expansive, remote large-scale maneu-
ver operations area that encompasses
15 simulated towns, tunnels and
caves, gunnery ranges and large-scale
maneuver engagement areas.
The typical rotation at NTC
involves, at most, about 50 tanks,
but Ironhorse brought something
special to the fight this time.
“With the number of M1A2
Abrams main battle tanks, M2A3
Bradley infantry fighting vehicles,
M109A6 Paladins, AH-64 Apache
attack helicopters and other plat-
forms we are bringing to the fight,
this is more combat power than
they have seen at NTC in a long
time,” said Maj. Alexander Samms,
1st BCT engineer.
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diers from the Texas Army National
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of the enabling units for the 1st
BCT is a unique training opportu-
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neer Battalion, 1st BCT, with what-
ever engineer assets they require,”
said 1st Sgt. Quincy Murphy, 840th
Mobility Augmentation Company,
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