Story by Maj. Robert Taylor | Idaho Army National Guard | 05.24.2024
Soldiers of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team conducted a command post exercise at Idaho’s Orchard Combat Training Center ranges with soldiers from the Canadian Armed Force’s 41st Canadian Brigade Group, headquartered in Calgary, while Polish Land Forces from the 1st Warsaw Armor Brigade observed and conducted a subject-matter expert exchange, May 4-18, 2024....
Story by Maj. Robert Taylor | Idaho Army National Guard | 05.19.2024
The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team held a change of command ceremony on May 17 at Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho, signifying the transfer of authority between outgoing commander Col. Eric Orcutt and the incoming commander, Col. Jason Gracida. Brig. Gen. Cole Packwood, assistant adjutant general – Army and commander, Idaho Army National Guard, presided over the ceremony, which included the......
Story by Mike Freeman | Joint Force Headquarters - Idaho National Guard | 03.11.2024
1st Lt. Lauren Bolt became the first female Idaho National Guard Soldier to command a line unit in the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team when she took her post as the commanding officer of Company A, 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion during a Feb. 26 change of command ceremony at the unit’s headquarters in Emmett, Idaho. The 2-116th is headquartered in Caldwell with units in Emmett and Nampa....
Story by Maj. Robert Taylor | 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team | 06.15.2023
More than two dozen Oregon Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team’s 3-116th Combined Arms Battalion conducted tank gunnery training with members of the Royal Moroccan Army in the Tan Tan Training Area, June 8-10 during Exercise African Lion 2023....
Story by John Hughel | Oregon Military Department Joint Forces Headquarters | 03.06.2023
Oregon Army National Guard members assigned to Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, were welcomed home during an official demobilization ceremony held in Hermiston, Oregon on March 5, 2023....
Story by Maj. Robert Taylor | Idaho Army National Guard | 11.04.2022
The Idaho Army National Guard welcomed home, to Boise, nearly 100 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team Soldiers on Nov. 4, 2022, after a yearlong deployment to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Spartan Shield. An additional 100 other Soldiers returned to their communities elsewhere across the state throughout the day. The task force conducted security and stability operations and......
Story by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur | Idaho Army National Guard | 09.19.2022
More than 600 Idaho Army National Guard Soldiers, joined by Soldiers from the Montana, Oregon, Ohio and South Carolina Army National Guards, have been training in Fort Bliss, Texas, since mobilizing from Gowen Field in early August. The task force, Task Force Rattler, will deploy to Southwest Asia later this month in support of Operation Spartan Shield, where they will rotate out with 250......
Story by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur | Idaho Army National Guard | 07.01.2022
Key leadership from the Idaho National Guard and several other U.S. states joined partner nations on June 30, 2022 in Morocco to see the capabilities of multinational armies working together simultaneously in a combined arms live-fire mission. During the exercise, Marines called in air strikes simultaneously as Idaho's 1st Battalion of the 148th Field Artillery Regiment fired the M795 high......
