By Rhett Breerwood, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office and LANG Museums NEW ORLEANS – This November, the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, known as the Tiger ...

A history professor from the University of Southern Mississippi has written a new book about a Mississippi National Guard unit’s deployment to Iraq during the War On Terror.

The U.S. Army announced May 9 that the Idaho Army National Guard’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team is among the first of the U.S. Army’s armored BCTs selected to transform to a Mobile ...

Christopher Cooksey now leads the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team. He accepted the command from Col. Michael G. Dykes of Ocean Springs. The two served in Iraq together in 2005. Cooksey said the ...

Col. Christopher Cooksey officially became commander of the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team during a ceremony at Camp Shelby Saturday morning. Cooksey takes over for former commander Col.

The 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, headquartered in Tupelo, is leaving for a three-month training deployment in Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by nine months overseas. The guard unit is supposed ...

But they’re also fragile—with inexperienced leaders, too few modern armored vehicles ... contact with actual combat conditions. In late December, the 155th Mechanized Brigade deployed to ...

During November and December, Ukrainian media reported in detail that the ramp-up of a 4,000-man brigade for combat had gone disastrously ... Along with the Caesar howitzers, the 155th has lost most ...

THE "MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL GUARD" WELCOMED THE 155TH ARMORED BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM BACK HOME. THE SOLDIERS WERE DEPLOYED FOR NEARLY 11-MONTHS. WE SPOKE TO A LIEUTENANT COLONEL WHO RETURNED NINE MONTHS ...

The 155th Mechanized Brigade ... The elite 47th Mechanized Brigade, the main user of Ukraine’s American-made armored vehicles, was in bloody combat for 15 months before it finally rotated ...

The 7th Army Training Command oversees the JMTG-U mission, currently manned by Task Force Thunder, 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi Army National Guard. Col. Christopher Costello ...

The Pennsylvania National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team will receive more than ... A Stryker is an eight-wheeled armored vehicle that first entered service in 2002.