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In September 2008, the entire 32nd Brigade and six other related units received mobilization orders directing their return to Iraq. This would be the largest operational deployment of Wisconsin National Guard forces since World War II. [12] They began training and preparing for deployment in January 2009.
The Guard units' Troop A and Troop B had been mustered out of Federal Service less than a year earlier on 20 October 1916 and 6 March 1917, respectively. The Adjutant General then directed the unit to add a new regiment, and the Second and Third Squadrons were formed as the First Wisconsin Cavalry, with units organized in various cities.
The units left Wisconsin as staggered intervals throughout February for pre-deployment training at Fort Bliss, TX. The units left Texas at staggered intervals from late April through May for deployment overseas to Iraq. This was the largest combat deployment of the Wisconsin Army National Guard since World War II.
Wisconsin provided approximately 15,000 troops whilst Michigan raised 8,000. Later 4,000 National Army troops from Wisconsin and Michigan were transferred to the Division shortly before it left for France. On 4 August 1917, Battery F, 121st Field Artillery regiment, was the first unit of the new division to arrive at Camp MacArthur, Texas. From ...
The 128th Air Refueling Wing (128 ARW) is a unit of the Wisconsin Air National Guard, stationed at General Mitchell Air National Guard Base, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.If activated to federal service in the United States Air Force, the wing is operationally gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC).
National Guard members were also trained to work in state-run mental health institutions in 2021. Guard members were also deployed to help protect the Wisconsin Capitol in 2020 and 2021 during ...
The 127th Infantry was reconstituted in the National Guard per the terms of the National Defense Act of 1920 in 1921, assigned to the 32nd Division, and allotted to the state of Wisconsin. The regiment was reorganized and federally recognized on 1 April 1921 with the headquarters at Oconto, Wisconsin .
That solution would take current Air National Guard units — nine of them, in six different states — and move them to the U.S. Space Force. The proposal is not without controversy.