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101st Airborne Division Soldiers return to Fort Campbell from deployment to Iraq
Family, friends and fellow Soldiers gathered to welcome home the unit which performed duties as the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command (CJFLCC) in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the land component command advising and assisting Iraqi Security Forces in defeating DA’ESH. ![]() Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell, speaks to Families, friends and Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division during a welcome home ceremony at Hangar 3, Fort Campbell, Ky., Nov. 18, 2016. Volesky spoke of his Air Assault Soldiers’ success in enabling Iraqi Security Forces to defeat DA’ESH and begin the retaking of Mosul in Iraq as the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve headquarters. The headquarters deployed to Iraq in February as the first Multi-Component Division Headquarters in the Army, comprised of Active Duty, Army National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers. “They filled our ranks up, if you will, with some really key capabilities,” Volesky said. Volesky also credited the Iraqi Security Forces for leading the ongoing fight for retaking Mosul. “The Iraqis are the ones fighting this fight,” he said. “We’re advising really at the division level and above, so at the tip of the spear those are the Iraqis that are winning the fight.” The 101st was key in enabling ISF to move as quickly as it did to regain control of critical terrain around Mosul, Volesky said. “The enablers we bring: the fires, the advise and assist and the training clearly are getting them to where they need to be. Every day DA’ESH is losing more and more terrain; they’ve lost 60 percent since 2014,” he said. There are still approximately 1,300 Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team “Strike” currently in Iraq. SectionsNewsTopics101st Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division Artillery, 101st Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command, Daesh, Fort Campbell, Fort Campbell KY, Gary J. Volesky, Iraq, Iraqi Security Forces, Mosul, Operation Inherent Resolve, Strike, Welcome Home Ceremony |
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