Army to Deploy 101st Airborne Soldiers to Afghanistan
Military.com | Sep 06, 2016 | by Matthew Cox
The U.S. Army announced Tuesday it will deploy about 1,400 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Afghanistan to participate in counter-terrorist operations.
The Rakkasans from 3rd Brigade Combat Team will deploy this fall to support Operation Freedom's Sentinel -- the U.S. counter-terrorism operation against the remnants of al-Qaida, an emerging offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and other terror groups, according to an Army press release.
"From hunting Al Qaeda and Taliban forces during Operation Anaconda in 2002, to performing the advise-assist mission in 2014-15, the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team have been nothing short of exceptional while supporting operations in Afghanistan over the years," Brig. Gen. Scott E. Brower, 101st Airborne's acting senior commander, said in the release.
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