Anybody have a list of the Guard units that are/have been deployed to Iraq

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

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How is it determined which states go, and when?

[LuLu550]

1. Don't have a list

but Rainbow Division from Troy NY just got told it was going over soon.

[SoCalDem]

2. 18,000 National Guard Troops Alerted for Likely Iraq Duty

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=news&start=0&num=3&q=http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml%3Ftype%3DdomesticNews%26storyID%3D4472275%26section%3Dnews


18,000 National Guard Troops Alerted for Likely Iraq Duty
Mon Mar 1, 2004 03:54 PM ET

By Charles Aldinger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department said on Monday it was alerting around 18,000 National Guard troops from New York, Louisiana, Idaho and Tennessee for a likely call to duty in Iraq late this year or early in 2005.

The advance notification for rotation was being given to provide predictability and planning time for families of the part-time troops with civilian jobs, who would have to serve for a full year on active duty in Iraq, the Pentagon said.

"If needed, these forces would replace deployed units in late 2004 or early 2005," the department said. "The National Guard soldiers being alerted now will be mobilized over the next several months to conduct necessary training prior to deployment."

The U.S. military has been stretched by conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, with nearly 183,000 part-time U.S. National Guard members and military reservists already on active duty in the United States and around the globe.

The Pentagon said units being notified for likely calls to active duty were the 42nd Infantry Division Headquarters from New York, the 256th Separate Infantry Brigade from Louisiana, the 116th Separate Armored Brigade from Idaho and the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment from Tennessee.

More than 120,000 U.S. troops are currently being rotated home from Iraq and replaced with about 110,000 fresh Army soldiers and Marines for the current year. Another 11,000 U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan are also being replaced.


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[Rebel_with_a_cause]

3. Has TX gone in yet?

I saw a list for TX Marine Guard units, but what about their army?

http://www.dod.mil/news/Feb2003/d20030219ngr.pdf

[legin]

4. My little file of clippings + a link

173rd Airborne Brigade in Kirkuk

82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION (-) in Fallujha
1st Marine Division south-central Iraq
101st Airborne Division in Mosul, N. Iraq
1st Armored Division Baghdad
4th Infantry Division Tikrit, (Kirkuk ? or the head of the northern area command)

The 1st Infantry Division, coming from several locations in Germany, will be joined by the 30th Infantry Brigade of the North Carolina National Guard. They are likely to operate in place of the 4th Infantry and 101st Airborne divisions in northern Iraq, including the Kurdish area.

An armored division like the 1st Cavalry Division will equip two of the three battalions in each of its brigades with Humvee utility vehicles instead of tanks and Bradleys. The 1st Cavalry, based at Fort Hood, Texas, will actually be larger than a normal division, since it will operate with the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Arkansas National Guard.

The Stryker Brigade is likely to see action in the so-called Sunni Triangle, the area between Baghdad, Ramadi and Tikrit where the resistance to U.S. forces has been deadliest.

Among the units swapping out in Iraq:
• 1st Infantry Division, augmented by the 2nd Infantry Division's Stryker Brigade and National Guard units, will replace the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul and 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit.
• 1st Marine Division, augmented by a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division (Light), will replace the 82nd Airborne Division in Fallujah and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment along Iraq's western border.
• 1st Cavalry Division, augmented by a brigade of National Guardsmen, will be responsible for the Baghdad area now patrolled by the 1st Armored Division.
• III Corps will replace V Corps as the command nucleolus for forces in Iraq at the coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
Units will also be on the move in Afghanistan in the coming months. The 25th Infantry Division, augmented by a contingent of Marines, is slated to take over the hunt for Taliban and al-Qaida holdouts there from the 10th Mountain Division in April.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=19777