16th Battalion
1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade
With the reorganization of the Iraqi Army the 16th Battalion was renamed the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division.
On October 23, 2004, three minibuses filled with 49 recruits from the what was then known as the 16th Battalion, 7th Army Brigade were ambushed by insurgents dressed as police in the single most deadly attack to date.
In January 2005, soldiers from the Iraqi army's 16th Battalion conducted six security patrols and three listening, observation and civilian sensing patrols and found six mines and two 40 mm rockets. Soldiers from the 17th Battalion conducted one early morning patrol and four day patrols and found 40 rockets.
On March 23, 2005 soldiers, due to an informant, from the 16th Battalion found five 85mm mortars.
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