Overview
- The 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team from Fort Drum will support Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led counter-ISIS mission in Iraq and Syria.
- Army officials have not provided precise movement dates, and a division spokesperson said final deployment numbers could be lower than the 1,900 authorized.
- The brigade will relieve the Iowa Army National Guard’s 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, whose leadership said some soldiers are returning early due to progress toward U.S. Central Command objectives.
- This will be the unit’s first deployment since transitioning to the Army’s mobile brigade combat team design after completing a Joint Readiness Training Center rotation at Fort Polk in August.
- In a separate routine rotation, the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division is deploying to South Korea to replace the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, with arrivals at Camp Humphreys already underway.