{"id":58258,"date":"2015-02-16T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58258"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:19:17","slug":"ft-carson-armored-combat-brigade-headed-to-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58258","title":{"rendered":"FT Carson Armored Combat Brigade headed to Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Colorado Springs Gazette<\/a> reports that 4,000 Fort Carson soldiers who have been training for the past year are headed to Kuwait to replace the brigade that is there now.<\/p>\n

The 3rd Brigade Combat Team bid farewell to the post in a ceremony and soon will serve as U.S. Central Command’s Reserve force in the Middle East – the first soldiers into battle if a major combat force is used to battle Islamic State fighters.<\/p>\n

The unit is Fort Carson’s heaviest force, armed with tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Many of its soldiers are veterans of one or more of the brigade’s four combat tours in Iraq.<\/p>\n

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Sierra’s soldiers have trained for more than a year for the Kuwait mission. They practiced skills that atrophied over more than a decade of counterinsurgency fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, relearning the armored combat skills last used in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article says that the Army has been rotating brigades in and out of Kuwait since 2011 when the last troops left Iraq…the last time. Shades of the Bush ’41\/Clinton years when there was a brigade of pre-positioned equipment in Kuwait that had to be issued every time Hussein sneezed.<\/p>\n

This unit from Carson is armor heavy, though, according to the article, so their mission is different than the unit that it is replacing. The brigade that is there now is supposed to be training regional forces while this new brigade appears to have a combat mission, should it be needed. <\/p>\n

ISIS had better hope that no one decides to employ these studs in northern Iraq. No unit in that theater is more lethal than these folks. Ask the Iraqi Republican Guards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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