Nearly 2,000 Guardsmen from Louisiana and Alabama assigned to the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, HQ'd out of Lafayette, La., returned home from a nearly year-long deployment over the last few weeks. The Tiger Brigade conducted base defense operations in the Middle East in support of U.S. Central Command’s Operations Inherent Resolve and Spartan Shield. The brigade operated in Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. The The brigade worked with multiple coalition forces, including Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, Canada and Italy. They provided first aid training to the Syrian Democratic Force’s Critical Petroleum Infrastructure Guard Academy. As a part of Task Force Tiger, the brigade facilitated air and ground de-confliction with the Russian military in the Eastern Syria Security Area. Task Force Tiger also pushed thousands of tons of equipment from Kuwait into theater, enabling partner forces to continue the defeat of Daesh. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, formerly known as ISIS. (Source: Currents 11/01/21)
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