ARLINGTON, Va. - Two brigade combat teams slated to move to the United States will remain in Germany until at least 2012, service leaders announced Wednesday.
The Army has received permission from President Bush to delay the relocation of the Schweinfurt-based 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division and the Baumholder-based 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division.
The two brigades [...]

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HOHENFELS, Germany - Shadow-eyed soldiers slog through the fields of churned mud at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, where the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division is pressing toward the finish line.Since mid-October, some 3,600 soldiers have been engaged in a mission rehearsal exercise, which tests the unit’s readiness to deploy to Iraq. And this week, [...]

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TIKRIT, Iraq - The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq said he believes that al-Qaida has been disrupted severely enough that coalition forces can now focus more on helping improve the Iraqi government and economy.Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, who took command of Multi-National Division - North last month, said he believes the war in Iraq [...]

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 The 1st Armored Division headquarters, deployed from Wiesbaden, Germany, has assumed command of Multi-National Division-North at a time when growing clashes between Turkey and the Kurds threaten a relatively calm region of Iraq.
The transfer of authority ceremony took place Sunday at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, near Tikrit.
It marked the end of a command tour by [...]

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 BAUMHOLDER, Germany - Soon the newly assembled four-member crew will be rumbling in their Abrams tank somewhere in Iraq.
But on Wednesday, the team from the 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment tested their skills together for the first time during a live-fire drill in Baumholder, where the local range was getting a heavy-duty workout.
“It went well. [...]

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WIESBADEN, Germany - After spending a ton of time in Iraq, much of it in Special Forces, Col. Raymond A. Thomas III knows how the cradle of civilization rocks.As he and the rest of the 1st Armored Division’s headquarters staff prepare to depart for Iraq later this month, Thomas is keeping things in perspective. Every [...]

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American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces continued security operations throughout Iraq the past few days, killing about 37 extremists, capturing more than 100, and discovering numerous weapons caches, military officials reported.
Four insurgents have been killed and 62 detained at the start of Operation Marne Torch’s fourth day today in [...]

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Squadron likely to unfurl its colors at Fort Bliss
By Matt Millham, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 

BÜDINGEN, Germany — They’re down, but they’re not out.
The 1st Squadron, 1st U.S. Cavalry Regiment, the oldest and most-decorated cavalry squadron in the U.S. Army, cased its colors Tuesday in a ceremony at Armstrong Barracks, a [...]

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Latest transformation announcement calls for leaving Hanau, most of Darmstadt
By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and StripesMideast edition, Friday, April 20, 2007

View the complete list of fiscal 2008 transformations.
HEIDELBERG, Germany — U.S. Army Europe announced Thursday that it intends to vacate Hanau and all but one of its facilities in Darmstadt by next summer as [...]

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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2007 – More than 7,000 servicemembers will deploy to Iraq in the coming months, including two units that will not have been back at their home stations for the year they expected when they returned home from their last deployments, Defense Department officials said today.
The rotations will [...]

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