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Idaho, International

Forever Wars: Idaho Armor rolls over Kuwait!

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03 June 2023 (21:47-UTC-07 Tango 06) 13 Khordad 1402/14 Dhu l-Qa’da 1444/16 Wu-Wu 4721/03 Июнь 2023 года

Camp Buehring, Kuwait, photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.

The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (aka Snake River Brigade, one of my military alma maters) is Idaho’s largest Army National Guard unit. The brigade is located in more than 20 Idaho communities as well as units in Montana, Nevada and Oregon.  The 2-116th Cavalry Regiment is headquartered in Caldwell with units in Emmett and Nampa, but is currently deployed to Kuwait as the 2-116 Combined Arms Battalion (2-116 CAB).

Camp Buehring, Kuwait, photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Latasha Price, 18MAY2023.

Photo by Specialist LaTasha Ross, 18MAY2023.

Video by Claudia LaMantia, M1A2 Abrams live fire on Udairi Range, Kuwait, 19MAY2023:

M1135 CBRN Stryker, Camp Buehring, Kuwait. Photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.

M12A1 Heavy Decontamination Apparatus. Photo by Specialist LaTasha Ross, 18MAY2023.

2-116th CAB M1A2 on Camp Buehring, Kuwait, 20FEB2023. Task Force Spartan photo by Specialist David Campos-Contreras.

An Idaho Army National Guard 2-116 CAB M1A2 Abrams battle tank gets loaded onto a USAF C-17 Globemaster-3 (from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina), on Ali Al Salem air base, Kuwait, 20MAY2023. USAF video by Senior Airman Jacob Cabanero:

Idaho’s 2-116 CAB relieved their sibling unit, Bravo Company of the the 3-116 Cavalry, towards the end of 2022 (which had deployed at the end of 2021).  While the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team is based in Idaho, the 3rd Battalion of the 116th CBCT is located in Oregon.

A 3-116th Cav M1A2 is loaded onto a C-17 cargo plane. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Matthew Plew, 22AUG2022.

B-Co/3-116th officially ended their deployment on 05MAR2023, with a demobilization ceremony in Hermiston, Oregon.

Forever Wars: ARIZONA, IDAHO & MASSACHUSETTS TAKE ON THE ‘DRAGON’ IN KUWAIT!

2022: IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON STUCK IN A DEPLOYMENT LOOP!

2021: OREGON DEPLOYED TO POLAND!

OREGON DEPLOYS MILITIA INTO “SIT-COM”!

2019: OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO AND MONTANA ARMY MILITIAS PREP TO DEPLOY

Vehicle I-D: M93 FOX NBCRSV (CBRN), COLD WAR & BEYOND

Technology

Vehicle I-D: NTC and the Bradley

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M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during Decisive Action Rotation 20-04 at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California, 08FEB2020.

M2A3 Bradley from 1st Battalion, 163rd Cavalry Regiment, Montana Army National Guard (part of 116th CBCT based in Idaho), NTC 01JUN2019. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Corporal Alisha Grezlik.

Bird’s eye video view of National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California:

Company B, 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry Regiment, Mississippi Army National Guard during NTC rotation 02JUN2017. Mississippi Army National Guard photo by Specialist Christopher Shannon.

Mech-Infantry storms NTC desert city:

Staff Sergeant Dustin Carter gives you a short video tour of the M2A3 Bradley:

“Fill ‘er up!” 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, refuel their Bradleys during Decisive Action Rotation 16-09, August 2016. U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Jordan Roy.

3rd Platoon, A Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th CBCT, August 2015. Oregon Army National Guard photo by Major W. Chris Clyne.

Bravo Troop, 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Decisive Action Rotation 14-09, August 2014. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ashley Marble.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Randis Monroe, Decisive Action Rotation 14-06, April 2014.

MILITIA UH-60L LOOSES WINDSHIELD AT NTC!

VEHICLE ID: KC-10 TIGER STRIPED F/A-18D & A-10C

MISSISSIPPI MILITIA ‘CLEANS UP’ ITS ACT AT NTC!

116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION

U.S.

Illinois, Kansas & Mississippi Militias 2017 Memorial weekend fun in the sun NTC style!

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Mississippi’s 1st Battalion, 155th Infantry Regiment M2A3/M3A3 Bradleys lined up for fuel 22 MAY 2017, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California.

The Mississippi National Guard  155th Armored Brigade Combat Team began their 2017 NTC rotation, with help from Illinois and Kansas National Guard (as well as thousands of Regular Army & Air Force personnel), just in time for the Memorial weekend:

Militiamen of Kansas National Guard ground-guide an M60 AVLB (Armored Vehicle Launching Bridge) at NTC, 25 MAY 2017.

Kansas National Guard 137th Infantry Regiment at NTC:

Stop your bitchin’! These Illinois Militia-women gate guards, spotted at NTC, will shoot your sorry ass if you try and cross them!

Mississippi 184th Sustainment Command at NTC:

Private First Class Chadd R. Boland, Illinois Militia, takes part in simulated protester training at NTC, 25 MAY 2017.

Mississippi 367th Maintenance Company at NTC:

Electronic warfare, Mississippi 150th Engineer Battalion at NTC:

Iowa National Guard just finished a three week ‘rotation’ at NTC.

VEHICLE ID: NTC M113 DISGUISED AS BMP

Video: 116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION (The last time the 116th went to NTC was in 1998, with yours truly.)

Don’t forget Trump also deployed Mississippi Militia for NATO police ops in Kosovo:  MISSISSIPPI MILITIA DEPLOYS

STOP YOUR BITCHIN’: 1ST MIXED MALE-FEMALE U.S. ARMY INFANTRY UNIT COMPLETES TRAINING!

STOP YOUR BITCHIN’!: USAF INTRODUCES YOU TO THEIR FEMALE SNIPER!