3rd Infantry Division Operations - Fort Stewart - U.S. Army

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16 3rd Infantry Division Operations enough. Training was accelerated. The 2nd BCT, like the 1st BCT before it, conducted a mission rehearsal exercise at Fort Stewart rather than deploying to the NTC. The CAB continued to support brigades with their training like it would in Iraq, but it had no independent training event to ready itself for the upcoming mission. The Battle Command Training Program cadre from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, responsible for drilling the division headquarters, descended on Wright Army Airfield where a model headquarters was fashioned in an old maintenance building. The command and staff huddled over newly issued equipment, grappled for a plan and an understanding of the battle space, the land and air above an area of responsibility, that it would assume. The clock was ticking and the sense of urgency was palpable. Soldiers were deploying with their equipment first to Truscott Air Terminal and then to Kuwait immediately after. By the first week of March, the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team had boots on the ground in Iraq and it was building combat power in Kuwait. In Georgia, a flag casing ceremony was held at Marne Garden outside Building 1, the division headquarters, on March 8th, 2007. Veterans of the Division, including its oldest living Medal of Honor recipient, COL (Ret.) Charles P. Murray, local community leaders, media, and Families attended to show their unwavering support. The ceremony signaled the division's third deployment in four years. Two weeks later the headquarters and Special Troops Battalion was deployed. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team and 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade were readying to deploy for the coming fight.
Chapter 4 Building the Multinational Division - Center from the Ground Up The first members of the 3rd Infantry Division headquarters arrived in Kuwait in February with embeds attached to the Multi-National Division Baghdad. Then more leadership arrived and all were sped forward to the Victory Base Complex. Victory Base was a massive palace complex that garrisoned thousands of coalition forces personnel west of Baghdad. On the other side of its turreted walls was Baghdad International Airport, the site of the division's main command post nearly four years earlier. The 3rd Infantry Division took its place in the Multi-National Forces - Iraq (MNF-I) area of operations under the Multi-National Corps - Iraq (MNC-I). As was the case with all the surge forces, the 3ID was breaking new ground, setting up operations where there had been nothing. There were no unique standard operating procedures. The earth-yellow concrete box designated as its headquarters building had been a garrison to military transients, both friendly
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