FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- March22, 2003
TASK FORCE IRONHORSE REPOSITIONS FORCES
Task Force Ironhorse - built around the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo., and including other U.S.-based Army units - will reposition its equipment and troops where required to prepare for and support Operation Iraqi Freedom, currently underway in Iraq and other countries in the U.S. Central Command area of operations.
Elements of Task Force Ironhorse will not deploy through Turkey - located in the U.S. European Command area of operations - but will now deploy through sites in the U.S. Central Command area of operations. No specific destinations have been announced where the deployments will occur.
The 4th Infantry Division, as the centerpiece of Task Force Ironhorse, is the world's first digitally enhanced heavy division, a mechanized infantry force equipped with Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, Apache helicopters, and other state-of-the-art military equipment.
The division's digital systems add to the warfighting capability of the division by providing the commander improved situational awareness to employ combat power at the decisive point on the battlefield.
No dates have been announced when the deployment of 4th Infantry Division soldiers will begin. The division was alerted for deployment on Jan. 20, and the division's combat vehicles and other equipment began leaving Fort Hood and Fort Carson in the weeks immediately following.
III Corps and 4th Infantry Division officials will not speculate on future employment of the Task Force Ironhorse forces.
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