Forever Wars: Idaho Armor rolls over Kuwait!

03 June 2023 (21:47-UTC-07 Tango 06) 13 Khordad 1402/14 Dhu l-Qa’da 1444/16 Wu-Wu 4721/03 Июнь 2023 года

Camp Buehring, Kuwait, photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.

The 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (aka Snake River Brigade, one of my military alma maters) is Idaho’s largest Army National Guard unit. The brigade is located in more than 20 Idaho communities as well as units in Montana, Nevada and Oregon. The 2-116th Cavalry Regiment is headquartered in Caldwell with units in Emmett and Nampa, but is currently deployed to Kuwait as the 2-116 Combined Arms Battalion (2-116 CAB).

Camp Buehring, Kuwait, photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Latasha Price, 18MAY2023.

Photo by Specialist LaTasha Ross, 18MAY2023.

Video by Claudia LaMantia, M1A2 Abrams live fire on Udairi Range, Kuwait, 19MAY2023:

M1135 CBRN Stryker, Camp Buehring, Kuwait. Photo by Specialist Rhema Eggleston, 15MAY2023.

M12A1 Heavy Decontamination Apparatus. Photo by Specialist LaTasha Ross, 18MAY2023.

2-116th CAB M1A2 on Camp Buehring, Kuwait, 20FEB2023. Task Force Spartan photo by Specialist David Campos-Contreras.

An Idaho Army National Guard 2-116 CAB M1A2 Abrams battle tank gets loaded onto a USAF C-17 Globemaster-3 (from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina), on Ali Al Salem air base, Kuwait, 20MAY2023. USAF video by Senior Airman Jacob Cabanero:

Idaho’s 2-116 CAB relieved their sibling unit, Bravo Company of the the 3-116 Cavalry, towards the end of 2022 (which had deployed at the end of 2021). While the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team is based in Idaho, the 3rd Battalion of the 116th CBCT is located in Oregon.