Red Arrow Deployment
26 September 2018 News
Soldiers with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry react to enemy contact July 15 on a training lane at Camp Grayling, Mich., as part of the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s Exportable Combat Training Center (XCTC) exercise. Wisconsin National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Daniel Yarnall
About 400 soldiers from the Wisconsin National Guard’s 2nd Battalion 127th Infantry will be deployed to Afghanistan this winter. The 32nd “Red Arrow” Infantry Brigade Combat Team, will deploy as a security element for coalition forces operating in the region. Soldiers from each company, including Company A in Waupun and Ripon, Company B in Green Bay, Company C from Fond du Lac, Company D, from Marinette, and the Appleton and Clintonville-based headquarters will all deploy as part of the mission. The 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry has deployed numerous times since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, including multiple tours in Iraq in 2005-06 and 2009-10 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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