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is an inactive brigade of the United States Army. Between 1975 and 1984, the brigade served at Fort Carson, CO, and in
Germany. The brigade was reactivated in 2004, and deployed four times in support of the War on Terror, once to Iraq and three times to Afghanistan, before being inactivated in 2015.
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between March and June 1976. Originally designed as rotational forces, the
Brigade was reassigned to Europe permanently in late 1976, when expected cost savings from the use of rotational forces failed to materialize. The Brigade was subsequently inactivated in 1984.
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