More than 1,800 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team Soldiers are returning home this week after nearly a month-long rotation at the U.S. Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.
The large-scale exercise was the brigade’s final training requirement in its four-year training cycle before it is available to complete a real-world mission in 2020.
The 116th is headquartered in Boise and consists of four battalions located in Idaho.
Looking ahead, soldiers and units of the 116th will participate in Defender 2020 in the spring of next year, which will include a month-long deployment to Germany.
