Tag: 4th Infantry Division
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2,400 Fort Carson soldiers and their Strykers deployed to U.S.-Mexico border
The 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team will deploy to the border with Mexico to assist the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection’s ongoing efforts to “maintain security.” The move will see roughly 2,400 soldiers deploy, though specific locations are not being named, per a news release from the United…
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American defector to North Korea had loose ties to Fort Carson, Colorado Springs
The U.S. soldier who fled into North Korea on Tuesday had loose ties to the 4th Infantry Division based in Colorado Springs. Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, a cavalry scout, traveled to South Korea with the 1st Brigade Combat Team within the 1st Armored Division based in Fort Bliss, Texas. He was then administratively attached…
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Building a ‘unity of understanding:’ In Poland, U.S. and NATO troops prove ready to deter Russia
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BEMOWO PISKIE, Poland • A barrage of shells, rockets and machine-gun fire blasted into distant targets Friday afternoon, filling the air with constant explosions near a critical borderland where former members of the Soviet Union are connected to the rest of NATO by a small strip…
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World War II aviation museum planning second phase late this year
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than two years after opening its centerpiece display hall, the National Museum of World War II Aviation plans to begin construction on an expansion that will double the hall’s size as its celebrates its 10th birthday. Site preparation began late last year on the…
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Colorado Springs Mayor Suthers: Air Force’s Space Command decision ‘absolutely comical’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A document created by the Pentagon to justify its decision to strip Colorado Springs of U.S. Space Command and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama has caused even more consternation among local leaders who say it proves the process was flawed and politics may have…