Military

The Department of Defense announced today that the 1st and 2d Brigades of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division, Wiesbaden, Germany, will deploy to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom rotations scheduled to begin in mid-2005.

Other units identified and announced as part of this rotation were previously announced on Dec. 14, 2004, and Jan. 4, 2005.

            DoD will continue to announce large units as they are identified and alerted.

            For information on Army units involved in this rotation please contact Army public affairs at (703) 692-2000.  For information specific to the units announced today please contact the 1^st Armored Division public affairs office at (49) 611-705-4859.