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Apr 19, 2021 8:19 PM
Fort Campbell’s 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) will deploy approximately 160 Soldiers to Fort Knox in support of an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise to be held there.
The members of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team are projected to deploy Tuesday.
Division Public Affairs Officer, Lt. Col. Kari McEwen says, “We have a crucial responsibility to be ready when the nation calls on us. This exercise is an opportunity for us to train the same procedures we use to conduct short-notice deployments anywhere in the world.”
The Army’s 110th Chemical Battalion and 48th Chemical Brigade, respectively from Fort Lewis, Washington; and Fort Hood, Texas, will also participate.
The Soldiers are expected to deploy Tuesday and come from the division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team.
The exercise is a Department of Defense-directed, strategic effort designed to rapidly test the Army’s ability to alert and deploy units worldwide.
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20 SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HI. – Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division executed an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE) training mission Dec. 9-10, which culminated with the unit air assaulting into Kauai, Hawaii, and conducting a mission to eliminate a small group of rebel forces and secure an international airport.
The purpose of the exercise was to rehearse and evaluate the battalion’s ability to deploy on short notice as part of the 3rd IBCT’s Immediate Response Force.
The scope of the exercise was to have an Immediate Response Company (IRC) from 2-35 IN go through the entire process of being alerted, going through the outload stations on Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, deploy to a distant location, and conduct a mission at an unfamiliar location.