The Department of the Army has announced the fall 2016 deployment of 1st Infantry Division headquarters from Fort Riley, with approximately 500 soldiers to Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.

Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 1st Inf. Div., will assume the role of Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command-Iraq, replacing the 101st Airborne Division ( Air Assault ). In that role the division headquarters will provide command and control of coalition troops training, advising and assisting Iraqi Security Forces.