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The Colorado Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army, United States National Guard, and Colorado National Guard.Nationwide, the Army National Guard comprises approximately one half of the US Army's available combat forces and approximately one third of its support organization.
The Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is the principal department of the Colorado state government [3] that supervises both the Colorado National Guard (including the Colorado Army National Guard and Colorado Air National Guard), and non-military state safety agencies.
The Colorado Army National Guard is currently composed of a variety of units, including the 169th Field Artillery Brigade (of which the 157th Field Artillery Regiment "First Colorado" is a component), the 1st Battalion of the 157th Infantry Regiment (attached to the 10th Mountain Division), and the 117th Space Support Battalion.
The 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment (Mountain) is also a unit of the Colorado Army National Guard, assigned to the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT), a separate IBCT. However, this unit is not lineally related to the former 157th Infantry or the current 157th Field Artillery, being newly constituted in 2007.
The brigade headquarters was organized on 19 June 1909 as Company M of the 1st Infantry, Colorado National Guard at Denver.The company was transferred to the 2nd Infantry on 19 November, retaining its letter, and on 15 August 1913 returned to the 1st Infantry as Company G.
A rescue team member accompanies the injured hiker as both are hoisted into a National Guard helicopter on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, on Mount Yale, Colorado. (Photo courtesy of Chaffee County ...
The 117th Space Battalion is a battalion of the Colorado National Guard constituted in 2006. [1] [2] Nicknamed the "Space Cowboys", by 2018 the unit was one of the most deployed in the National Guard of the United States. [3] On 20 October 2007 the provisional 193rd Space Battalion became a permanent-status unit, the 117th Space Battalion. [4]
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”