WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – The US Army announced on Tuesday that it would send the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team to Iraq later this summer to support the anti-ISIS Coalition, formally known as CJTF-OIR (Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.)
The Stryker Brigade will come out of Fort Carlson, Colorado, and some 1,800 personnel will replace the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the Louisiana National Guard, which will return to the US.
The 256th Infantry Brigade deployed to Erbil last January, when it replaced troops from the 82nd Airborne.
Over the course of 2020, CJTF-OIR consolidated its positions into two major bases: Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan Region and Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq’s western Al-Anbar province.