Task Force Mustang

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36th Combat Aviation Brigade
Active
Country United States
Branch Army National Guard
Type Aviation Brigade
Size 2,700 soldiers
Part of 4th Infantry Division
U.S. Army III Corps
U.S. First Army
Garrison/HQ Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Texas and LSA Anaconda, Iraq
Commanders
Current
commander		 Colonel Vern A. Sevier Jr.

Task Force Mustang is the deployment unit name for the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard. The 36th CAB completed a tour of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the fall of 2007 when it was relieved by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, a similarly comprised regular army unit.

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[edit] History

Task Force Mustang has previously deployed to Bosnia and Kosovo, and to the United States Gulf Coast in support of disaster operations following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.


[edit] Brigade Formation

During the brigade's deployment to Iraq it composed of over 2700 soldiers from 44 states. Approximately 2500 were from 16 state Army Guard units. The brigade was augmented by over 200 Individual Ready Reserve Army soldiers from 36 different states. The 36th CAB is the first National Guard Combat Air Brigade under the Army's reformatting plan.

[edit] Global War on Terror

Task Force Mustang shipped to Iraq in September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, following a few weeks of Boots on the ground training at Camp Buehring, Kuwait in August. They completed five months of flight and Theatre Immersion training at Fort Hood, Texas and Fort Sill, Oklahoma and were certified "Fit to Fight" by Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, commanding general, First U.S. Army, on 30 July 2006.

In the first eight months in Iraq, 36th CAB units flew 51,000 combat flight hours while executing almost 7,300 combat missions. 36 CAB has hauled more than 230,000 passengers, moved more than 15 million pounds of cargo, conducted almost 60 large combat air assaults, provided outstanding Medevac support to save many Soldiers' lives, and supported ground troops with AH-64 Apaches every day.[1]

[edit] Elements Which Deployed to Iraq

homebase: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas.
homebase: Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colorado
homebase: Fort Rucker, Alabama
  • 1st Battalion, 108th Aviation Regiment
homebase: Topeka, Kansas
Unit became operational in Iraq on 1 November 2006 and was the last CAB unit to do so for the current Iraq deployment.
  • 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack/Reconnaissance)
homebase: Ellington Field, Houston, Texas
  • 449th Support Battalion (Aviation) {Commander, LTC Travis Richards, Command Sergeant Major, CSM Monroe Kelinske, Gunner, SPC Peter Taylor}
homebase: San Antonio, Texas
  • OSACOM Battalion (Operational Support Airlift Command) — a mix of units that came together in October 2006 and will wear the 36th Inf Div patch while serving in Iraq over the next year. OSACOM flies the C-23 Sherpa.
  • C Co (Air Ambulance), 1st Battalion, 111th Aviation Regiment - Home stations are in Arkansas and Florida, unit attached to 2nd Battalion (General Support), 135th Aviation Regiment in 2006 as an additional MEDEVAC Company in support of OIF.

[edit] Army Guard Unit personnel contributions

All troop strength numbers are approximate

[edit] Aircraft

The unit flew approximately 24 Apache Attack, 80 UH-60 Black Hawk, 12 CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

[edit] References and External links

  1. ^ Picard, Stephan J. (2007-04-30). "[… The Mustang Leader]". 1. US Army. …. Retrieved 2007-05-06. 
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