The 1st Infantry Division Command staff along with a group of U.S. Army troops from Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, returned from Iraq Monday.

During the welcome-home ceremony Maj. Gen. Paul E. Funk II and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael A. Grinston uncased the Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion colors, signifying the end of the headquarters’ mission.

Over the last nine months 1st ID Headquarters formed the core of the Combined Joint Land Component Command-Iraq, which was responsible for the advising and assisting Iraq’s security forces and providing training to newly built Iraqi army units as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.

This was the “Big Red One’s” first deployment in an advise-assist capacity, and they were also the first division to operate through a split headquarters. The division’s nine-month deployment was split between three locations: two in Iraq and one elsewhere in Asia.

The Big Red One handed over command of Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command-Iraq to the 82nd Airborne Division on June 28th in Baghdad, Iraq.

All Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion Soldiers are expected to be back at Fort Riley by next month.

(Photos by Amanda Kim Stairrett and Spc. Nicole Fox, 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs Office)