170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team to Deploy to Northern Afghanistan

The 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team currently stationed in Germany will soon deploy to northern Afghanistan.  It will replace the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division that will return to Fort Drum, New York.  Part of the brigade will deploy to RC-South and one of its battalions will be engaged in training units of the Afghan National Security Forces.  Read more in "Baumholder-based brigade to patrol northern Afghanistan", Stars and Stripes, January 10, 2011.