1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division | |
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![]() 10th Mountain Division shoulder sleeve insignia
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Active | 1985 - present |
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Branch |
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Type | Infantry Brigade Combat Team |
Role | Infantry / Combined Arms Maneuver |
Size | Brigade |
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Garrison/HQ | Fort Drum, New York, U.S. |
Engagements |
World War II *Kiska *Italian Campaign Korean War War in Southwest Asia Armed Forces Expeditions – Somalia Afghanistan Campaign Iraq Campaign |
Commanders | |
Commander | COL Shane Morgan |
Command Sergeant Major | CSM Wendell Franklin |
The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division is an active Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York. The brigade headquarters carries the lineage of the 10th Mountain Division's original headquarters company, and served as such in World War II, and in peacetime at Fort Riley, Fort Benning, and Germany in the 1940s and 1950s.
The brigade was activated in April 1986, at Fort Drum, New York, when the 10th Mountain Division was reactivated as one of the Army's new Light Infantry Divisions. 1st Brigade and its subordinates saw numerous deployments to contingencies around the world in the 1990s. With the War on Terrorism the brigade has seen multiple deployments to Afghanistan to support Operation Enduring Freedom and to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The brigade currently consists of seven subordinate battalions. The core of the brigade's combat power are its three infantry battalions: 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment; the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment; and the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment. The 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment provides reconnaissance to the Brigade Combat Team, while the 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment provides field artillery support. The 7th Brigade Engineer Battalion provides combat engineering, military intelligence, and signal services, and the 10th Brigade Support Battalion provides the brigade's logistics support.