Loyalty: Part Two

‪@10thMountainDivision‬
In January 2005 the US Army created the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division. The 10th Mountain Division (Light) remains the most deployed division in the history of the US Army.
4th Brigade consisted of the Brigade Headquarters, 2-4 Infantry Battalion, 2-30 Infantry Battalion, 3-89 Cavalry Regiment, 5-25 Field Artillery Regiment, 94th Brigade Support Battalion, and the Brigade Special Troops Battalion (BSTB).
The BSTB provides Brigade level combat support operations such as Military Police, Chemical/Biological Recon, Combat Engineers, Military Intelligence Support, and Brigade Communications/Network Support.
Many of the 4/10 and BSTB soldiers would remain together from late 2004 until spring 2009. The brigade would complete three combat deployments, uncounted training exercises, as well as living, exercising, drinking, and fighting together. In comparison, the core group of Easy Company 2-506th, the "Band of Brothers" spent less than 3 years together.
This is the second part of the story, discussing their 15 month deployment to FOB Loyalty, Baghdad, Iraq. This deployment included the 2008 Battle for Sadr City, the second largest battle of the Iraq War.
Historical note, the 4th Brigade 10th Mountain was redesignated the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division on February 24th, 2015. Fort Polk, Louisiana was redesignated Fort Johnson on June 13, 2023. Our accounts retain the designations of these units and locations as they were at the time.

[@JackNiehoff]

THANK YOU

[@adventurearyck64]

🇺🇸🪖🎖️🙏 Thank You!!

[@AllYourFache]

Awwww here we go part two!!!

[@MrMexicansteve]

BDE PSD XO team Leader and then ended up in the BDE TOC full time. I was the guy on duty monitoring the damn Lob bomb attack with the Afatds wondering why no radar picked it up. No incoming alert given. I called my counterpart in Rusty then the green zone. No one showed anything going on. My boss SFC Sommerfeld came. was with Cameron in Fort Riley, then Polk.

[@MrMexicansteve]

BDE PSD VIPER teams w1,2,3; BDE CO, BDE CSM, and BDE XO was made up of FIST, Scouts, Infantry, and combat medics. We had Lethal and Non Lethal teams made of FIST.

[@MeerkatADV]

Good to hear from you! That deployment was a trip for sure.

[@MrMexicansteve]

@@MeerkatADVgreat video and editing.

[@MrMexicansteve]

@@MeerkatADVoh Im still looking for the guy in the red car that recorded the damn lob bomb video lol. Seems the police on the bridge left prior the attack. And the truck driver ran to the car recording.

[@MeerkatADV]

@MrMexicansteve lol, yeah we were looking for the guys that set that up for months. I believe a bunch of them blew themselves up about 2 months later when that lob bomb truck blew up early.