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| - The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division is a mountain warfare infantry brigade combat team of the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York. It is a subordinate unit of the 10th Mountain Division. Formed as the 10th Mountain Division's original headquarters company, the brigade traces its lineage through the division's fight through Italy in World War II and afterwards, as it commanded a training division and then an infantry division which briefly deployed to Europe. 1st Brigade was reactivated 11 April 1986 at Fort Drum, New York. The 1st Brigade is the Command and Control Headquarters for Task Force Warrior, consisting of its organic battalions 1–32nd Infantry, 1–87th Infantry, and 2–22nd Infantry. The principal units that have been assigned to TF Warrior during Division Ready Brigade missions, off post deployments, and major exercises have been the 3–6th Field Artillery, 10th Forward Support Battalion, A/3-62nd Air Defense Artillery, A/41st Engineer, A/110th Military Intelligence, A/10th Signal Battalion, and 1st PLT/10th Military Police Battalion. the 10th Mountain Division's first brigade and its elements saw numerous deployments to contingencies around the world in the 1990s. With the War on Terrorism the brigade has seen two deployments, one to Afghanistan to support Operation Enduring Freedom in 2003, and one to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005. The Brigade Combat Team is scheduled for a third deployment, returning to Iraq in fall of 2009, but the deployment was canceled on 16 October 2009. [1] It is now deployed in Afghanistan (9 March 2010) and is scheduled to return to garrison in late January 2011/early February 2011.
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