(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Mason Cutrer)An Idaho Air National Guard A-10 C Thunderbolt II from the 124th Fighter Wing flies over the Idaho Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment’s defensive line June 13, 2019 at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. Throughout NTC the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team and the 124th Fighter Wing, both headquartered in Boise, have trained alongside each other to build unit readiness…
July 3, 2019
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Guard soldiers return home to Idaho communities
More than 1,800 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team soldiers from 137 Idaho communities have returned home after nearly a month-long rotation at the U.S. Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. The large-scale exercise was the brigade’s final training requirement in its four-year training cycle before it is available to complete a real-world mission in 2020.