Topic: U.S. Central Command

Tennessee National Guard’s 194th Engineer Brigade Returns from Deployment

September 19, 2020 |

Smyrna, TN – Approximately 116 Soldiers from the Tennessee National Guard’s 194th Engineer Brigade has returned home after a successful deployment to the Middle East. Before returning to Tennessee, the Soldiers conducted a two-week quarantine period and a de-mobilization process in Fort Bliss, Texas.

Based out of Jackson, the 194th was activated October 2019 and has spent the last 10 months as the U.S. Central Command Theater Engineer Brigade Headquarters, performing the functions of a corps level engineering strategic assist.

Soldiers from the 194th Engineer Brigade are greeted by Maj. Gen. Jeff Holmes, Tennessee’s Adjutant General, and Maj. Gen. Tommy Baker, Deputy Adjutant General, in Nashville, Sept. 17, following a year-long deployment to the middle-east. The Guardsmen have been quarantining and undergoing a demobilization process for two weeks in Texas before being reunited with loved ones in Tennessee. (U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Timothy Cordeiro)

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101st Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade to deploy

September 16, 2020 |

101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Public Affairs Staff

Fort Campbell, KY – The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) announces today the upcoming deployment of the 101st Division Sustainment Brigade (Lifeliners) to Kuwait.

More than 200 Soldiers will deploy to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility to conduct mission command operations and provide intra-theater logistical support.

“Command Sgt. Maj. Kevin Campbell and I are extremely humbled to serve alongside these incredible men and women in such a storied division. Our Division Sustainment Brigade warriors are highly trained, disciplined and fit,” said Col. Peter L. Gilbert, commander, 101st Division Sustainment Brigade.

Soldiers of 101st Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade, 101st Division (Air Assault. (Spc. Beverly Roche, 40th Public Affairs Detachment)

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129th Division Sustainment Support Battalion un-case colors after their return to Fort Campbell from deployment

February 4, 2020 |

Fort Campbell, KY – Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 129th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Sustainment Brigade, uncased their battalion’s colors during a ceremony January 30th, 2020 following a nine-month deployment to Kuwait.

“The un-casing ceremony isn’t about me or the team that came back,” said Lt. Col. Eric Anderson, 129th Division Sustainment Support Battalion commander, as he spoke to family and friends in the audience.

Lt. Col. Eric Anderson (right), commander of the 129th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Sustainment Brigade and Command Sgt. Maj. Jesse Oudenhaven (left), 129th Div. Sust. Support Battalion senior enlisted advisor, uncase their battalion colors during a ceremony at Fort Campbell, Jan. 30. (Sgt. Aimee Nordin, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs)

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101st Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade Soldiers Return to Fort Campbell from Kuwait

December 23, 2019 |

Fort Campbell, KY – More than 60 Soldiers, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 129th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Sustainment Brigade, are scheduled to return December 26th, 2019 at 2:30pm after a nine-month deployment to Kuwait.

The welcome home ceremony will be held at Fort Campbell at Hangar 3.

Over 60 Soldiers with the 129th Division Sustainment Support Battalion 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Sustainment Brigade are set to return to Fort Campbell the day after Christmas. (Spc. Alexes Anderson/ 101st SBDE Public Affairs Office)

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3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) to welcome New Commander, Thursday

August 21, 2019 |

Fort Campbell, KY – On Thursday, August 22nd, 2019, 3rd Brigade Combat Team “Rakkasan,” 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) soldiers will welcome a new commander at 9:00am.

Col. John Cogbill, who has commanded the unit for two years, will pass the brigade colors to Col. Brandon Teague in a ceremony on the division parade field at Fort Campbell.

Col. Brandon Teague

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Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby Statement on Airstrikes in Iraq

August 8, 2014 |

Washington, D.C. – At approximately 6:45am EDT, the U.S. military conducted a targeted airstrike against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists.

Two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil. ISIL was using this artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending Erbil where U.S. personnel are located. «Read the rest of this article»

2nd Battalion, 160th SOAR, received first Meritorious Unit Commendation

August 22, 2011 |

160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)
Public Affairs Office

Fort Campbell, KY – The 2nd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), received the Meritorious Unit Commendation streamer during a ceremony at Fort Campbell, KY, August 15th, 2011.

The MUC was awarded for exceptionally meritorious actions in support of combat operations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility from October 2009 to September 2010. Elements of 2nd Battalion remain continuously deployed in support of the War on Terror. Night Stalkers Don’t Quit!

Lt. Col. Phil Ryan (left), commander of 2nd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), and Col. John Thompson, SOAR commander, secure the battalion's first Meritorious Unit Commendation streamer to the unit colors during a ceremony at Fort Campbell, KY, August 15th, 2011. (160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment photo)

Petraeus Explains Afghanistan Strategy

September 4, 2010 |

Written by John Banusiewicz
Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs

Kabul, Afghanistan – Progress in Afghanistan has been faster than expected in some respects, and not as far along in others, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said here September 3rd.

Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, spoke to reporters traveling with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before attending a working lunch with the admiral.

The progress achieved so far in Afghanistan is “about standard for any one of these kinds of deliberate campaigns,” Petraeus said.

The current Afghanistan strategy has been in the making since 2008, the general said, when a U.S. Central Command assessment and subsequent policy reviews revealed that factors he called “the inputs” of the Afghanistan mission weren’t right. New organizational structures and some new leaders were necessary, he explained, and concepts and approaches needed refinement. And, he added, insufficient resources had been applied to the effort at that time.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander, International Security Assistance Force depart ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 3rd. Mullen made a short stop in the Afghan capital addressing Combined Joint Interagency Task Force 435 and receiving an operational update from Petraeus during his visit.

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