He was assigned to the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson five months later.
The last troops to be rotated out of Iraq -- in April, 2004 -- would be the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
KIRKUK, Iraq (CNN) -- A battalion from the 173rd Airborne Brigade has reinforced U.S. troops and Kurdish forces in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Maj.
In February, the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, the first official surge brigade, was sent into eastern Baghdad.
Mike Linnington will lead thousands of soldiers from the 101st Airborne's 3rd Brigade onto a crowded, fast-paced battlefield.
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, 3rd Brigade engaged in an hour-long firefight with Iraqi soldiers believed to be members of Saddam Fedayeen 50 miles south of Baghdad, said CNN's Ryan Chilcote, who is travelling with the unit.
Major Tom Bryant, a spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade in nearby Tikrit, says the informants said as many as 100 insurgents, at least some of them foreign fighters, were operating in the region.
Major TOM BRYANT (Spokesman, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division): About a month ago, we started receiving intelligence from our Iraqi partners, reports that indicated a number of insurgents operating in this area northeast of Samarra, a very isolated, rural area, a lot of farms, a couple of small villages, but kind of a no man's land.
The plan is being described as analogous to contingency combat forces, like the Ready Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is always on standby to deploy within 18 hours.
Colonel MICHAEL McBRIDE (Commander, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division): We have 50 (unintelligible).
Colonel Michael McBride is the commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, now in charge of Samarra.
He is a 21-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.
In eastern Nangarhar province where the U.S. 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne division, is advising the Afghan National Army, Lt.
Associated Press writer Kristin Hall, who was in eastern Afghanistan with the U.S 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne division, contributed to this report.
Phil Kiniery, who serves as operations officer in eastern Afghanistan for the U.S. Army's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, which is responsible for 280 miles of the border with Pakistan.
In June 2010, he was attached to the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team under the 101st Airborne Division.
Greg Zellmer, of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, the 82nd Airborne Division.
Such is the pace of withdrawal that the 1st Brigade of the American army's 82nd Airborne Division reached Ghazni only three months ago, but already its commanders must think of departure.
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