The Last Large-Scale American Unit Is Deployed To Iraq

Soldiers from D Company, 3rd Battalion, 166th Infantry, Virginia Army National Guard, engage targets with a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a Humvee during a gunnery qualification at the multi-purpose range complex on Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind., June 17. The Virginia Soldiers are part of a task force with Soldiers from Kentucky and Utah deploying to Iraq that is expected to be the last large scale mobilization of troops to that country. Dvids

Last Large-Scale Unit Deploys To Iraq -- Dvids

CAMP ATTERBURY JOINT MANEUVER CENTER, Ind. - Everything that begins has an end. While that may come across as a tad cliché, it is nevertheless accurate. Operation Iraqi Freedom's end ushered Operation New Dawn. Now, Operation New Dawn is reaching its endgame. It's time to put the chairs on the tables, kill the lights and lock-up as we depart. Or not depart. Or as Yoda, from George Lucas' Star Wars films put it, "Difficult to see, the future is; always in motion."

The mission of Operation New Dawn is advise and assist, and there is still work to be done despite the looming deadline for withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country at the end of the year.

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My Comment: Also .... joint operations in Iraq are now being scaled back.