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Originally posted by cmd18B
Ive been doing some snooping and pooping about this article and from what Ive come across and I do still have buddies at Benning and Stewart/HAAF and Ive never personally served with 3rd ID but have been around some elements of 3rd ID and they have an excellent reputation. In January 2007, the Raider Brigade Combat Team"1st BCT 3RD ID(mechanized) deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom V, making it the Army’s first brigade combat team to have deployment orders three times to Iraq. Although there has been several recent articles articles in the Army Times I was not able to find that information, The 3rd BCT "SLEDGEHAMMER" however is being redeployed, and the 3rd BCT 1st Id is being reactivated at Ft Hood. So in my own opinion I think that it is disinformation, Im not saying the OP is wrong but I do feel the information is wrong, The is no way a combat equipped fighting force is going to put boots on the ground on american soil here providing "humanitarian" operations. That is the national guards mission and they should be used for that.
Originally posted by cmd18B
Ive been doing some snooping and pooping about this article and from what Ive come across and I do still have buddies at Benning and Stewart/HAAF and Ive never personally served with 3rd ID but have been around some elements of 3rd ID and they have an excellent reputation. In January 2007, the Raider Brigade Combat Team"1st BCT 3RD ID(mechanized) deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom V, making it the Army’s first brigade combat team to have deployment orders three times to Iraq. Although there has been several recent articles articles in the Army Times I was not able to find that information, The 3rd BCT "SLEDGEHAMMER" however is being redeployed, and the 3rd BCT 1st Id is being reactivated at Ft Hood. So in my own opinion I think that it is disinformation, Im not saying the OP is wrong but I do feel the information is wrong, The is no way a combat equipped fighting force is going to put boots on the ground on american soil here providing "humanitarian" operations. That is the national guards mission and they should be used for that.