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The Iraqi National Guard (ING; Arabic: الحرس الوطني, al-Ḥaras al-Waṭanī) was an armed force originally established by the United States Coalition Provisional Authority. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq , CPA Administrator Paul Bremer disbanded the apparatus of the Iraqi Armed Forces through Coalition Provisional Authority ...
Task Force Mustang is the deployment unit name for the Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard.The CAB completed a tour of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the fall of 2007 when it was relieved by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, a similarly constituted regular army unit.
Multi-National Corps – Iraq (MNC-I) was a formerly multinational, later U.S. only, army corps created on 15 May 2004, fighting the Iraq War.Its superior body, the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) had replaced Combined Joint Task Force 7 on May 15, 2004.
Until the US Army arrived, FOB Caldwell was an abandoned Iraqi military base. Construction had begun in the mid-1980s by the Czechoslovakian government and ceased in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The entire facility covers about 100 acres (0.40 km 2 ) and has several medium size groups of buildings called pods.
Italy – In July 2010, the Italian Army deployed 90 soldiers to Iraq under NTM-I: a Major General, Deputy Commander of the mission; a senior officer, Advisor of the Iraqi Minister of Defense, in an advisory capacity for training and liaison with the NTM-I HQ; a senior officer, an adviser to Iraq's top military university (National Defense ...
Later that year, the 45th Infantry Brigade deployed to Afghanistan to train soldiers of the Afghan National Army which was followed by another brigade deployment to Iraq, in 2007, to assist in turning over of American military bases to Iraqi forces. A third brigade deployment to Afghanistan in 2011, saw the brigade assigned full-spectrum ...
The 621st Troop Support Command, Arkansas National Guard acted as the Garrison Command Cell (formerly known as the Mayor Cell) from October 2007 through March 2008 [10] when it was relieved by 1–206th FA. Force protection duties were performed by a number of units, including elements of the California Army National Guard's 1–143rd FA.
Brigadier Gen. Steve Salazar, deputy commanding general of the Coalition Army Advisory Training Team, and other representatives from the team, visited a training site of the Iraqi 7th Division near Al Asad Air Base, Anbar Province, July 20, 2008. Once finished, the facility was planned to have enough equipment to train more than 300 Iraqi soldiers.