5th Battalion
1st Battalion, 1st Brigade
With the reorganization of the Iraqi Army the 5th Battalion was redesignated the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade of the 5th Division.
What was then the Iraqi army's 5th Battalion was activated 01 August 2004 with the basic training completion and graduation of 723 training recruits in a ceremony at the Kirkush Military Training Base east of Baghdad. By August 2004 steady growth and rapid progression seems to be the status of the 3rd Brigade, Iraqi Army, including the 5th battalion.
In November of 2004, The 5th Battalion, 3rd Brigade of the Iraqi Army seized Al Tawfiq Mosque with U.S. Marines from the 7th RCT.
In March, 2005 Iraqi Army soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 3rd Brigade armed with metal detectors discovered three weapons caches buried in a village just south of Taji during a recent search that also netted three suspected insurgents - one of whom was on the local most wanted list.
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