Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations

Beginning in October, the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1200 plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency.

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is training for domestic operations. The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command.

The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command.The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.

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2008-09-23