Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 06.09.2017
CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – Visible waves of intense heat radiated off of the sand at the Udairi Range Complex as teams maneuver the lanes, scanning their sectors, communicating among each other, and engaging targets. The cavalry scouts and tankers of the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment “Saber,” 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division arranged into Hunter-Killer teams,......
Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 05.18.2017
WADI SHADIYA, Jordan – On a hilltop in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the calm morning silence is broken when two F-16 Fighting Falcons drop their explosive pay-load. As a cloud of powdery dust and shrapnel rise from the target area, the engines of five M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks roar to life and move into position atop a hill over-looking a ravine. A radio crackles as a platoon......
Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 05.01.2017
One of the most challenging parts of deployment for many Soldiers is being away from friends and Family. Soldiers and Family members alike often lean on others who share a similar experience during long periods apart. One 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Family is using their shared experience to make deployment just a little bit easier. Capt. Andrea Wolfe and her son,......
Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 04.06.2017
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – The Greywolf Brigade spent the last two weeks embracing international interoperability during their nine-month deployment to Kuwait. Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. served as the opposing force during the training ex-ercise Eagle Resolve....
Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 03.12.2017
CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – After months of planning, training, maintaining, equipping and manning, the much-anticipated deployment of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team “Greywolf,” 1st Cavalry Division based out of Fort Hood, Texas is underway. The Greywolf command team, Col. John Woodward and Command Sgt. Maj. Alfred Ronneburg, uncased the brigade colors, while subsequently the command......
Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 02.16.2017
FORT HOOD, Texas — After a rigorous train-up spanning more than nine months and comprising a division-level warfighter exercise, various gunneries, and a combined arms live-fire exercise, the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team “Greywolf,” 1st Cavalry Division cased its colors in a ceremony on Cooper Field at Fort Hood, Texas, Feb. 16....
Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 02.14.2017
FORT HOOD, Texas – After almost two years of nearly non-stop activity, from garrison mission requirements to pre-deployment training, the Soldiers and Families of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division bade farewell to the brigade command sergeant major in a ceremony at Abrams Field House Feb. 14....
Story by Sgt. Christopher Dennis | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 11.22.2016
With every battalion in the brigade earning streamers for safety, and earning recognition as the only brigade to not have a ‘Class A’ or ‘Class B’ accident on Fort Hood for 2016, Ironhorse Soldiers and leaders have accomplished a feat for an organization of more than 5,000 personnel and millions of dollars’ worth of vehicles and equipment....
