FORT RILEY, Kansas – Soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st
Infantry Division, are returning to Fort Riley following a successful
nine-month deployment to Kuwait. The first group of Soldiers arrived on post
earlier this month, with the remaining set to redeploy in large groups in
the next few weeks. The entire brigade will return by late March.

Several thousand Soldiers from the brigade departed for Southwest Asia in
June.

During the deployment, Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, then-Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagel and Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army’s chief of staff, visited the
brigade’s Soldiers.

“What you’re doing here, this joint task force, is really the centerpiece,”
Hagel told the “Devil” brigade troops during his in December visit. “It is
the pivot point. It is absolutely critical to everything that happens. This
business of what you do right here is essential to make it all work, along
with the 60 coalition partners that have been assembled to degrade and
defeat ISIL.”

Jason Roberts

1st Infantry Division Public Affairs