David.Gettman December 20th, 2005
Deployment to Bosnia and Herzegovina
In April of 1997 the Regiment received a Warning Order to be prepared to deploy to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following the first Mission Rehearsal Exercise held at the JRTC in June, the unit moved to Germany to begin integration with the First Armored Division. Meanwhile, all its equipment was shipped to the Intermediate Staging Base at Tazar, Hungary. Continue Reading »
David.Gettman December 19th, 2005
by Major General Larry J. Lust and Brigadier General Mitchell H. Stevenson
The unit’ s redeployment from Bosnia to Louisiana provided an opportunity to test automatic identification technologies.
How does one track roughly 2,400 soldiers from 27 troop-sized units, 2,524 vehicles, 45 helicopters, and 217 container and shop sets-”coming from 7 base camps, crossing 5 international boundaries, and using highway, rail, air, inland waterway, and sea transportation-”from Bosnia to the United States?
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