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Mission of 3rd BCT changing
Story By: Rob Quirk, Bea Karnes
Published Fri Jul 17, 2009, 03:20 PM MDT
The mission of the Third Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Carson will be changing.
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It’s not just 4th ID’s 3rd Bde:
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?s...&article=63742
U.S. shifts to advisory role in Iraq deployments
By Kevin Baron, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, July 16, 2009
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Pentagon has designated four new "advisory and assistance brigades" among 11 units representing 30,000 troops that will begin deploying to Iraq in the fall, the next step in the phased U.S. military withdrawal from a nation trying to transition from war to stability....
The new brigades will retain some combat capabilities, but their designation as advisers rather than as a brigade combat team will allow them to move freely within Iraq’s cities to work with Iraqi security forces, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman....
The new advisory and assistance brigades were created out of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning, Ga.; the 2nd and 1st Brigade Combat Teams of the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Ga.; and the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, from Fort Carson, Colo....