Schweinfurt, Baumholder brigades to stay

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Schweinfurt, Baumholder brigades to stay
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, December 20, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — Two brigade combat teams slated to move to the United States will remain in Germany until at least 2012, service leaders announced Wednesday.

The Army has received permission from President Bush to delay the relocation of the Schweinfurt-based 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division and the Baumholder-based 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division.

The two brigades also will be reorganized and reflagged as “heavy brigade combat teams,” Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Richard Cody told Pentagon reporters.

In fiscal 2012, one of the heavy brigade combat teams will be permanently relocated back in the United States, at Fort Bliss, Texas, he said.

The following year, fiscal 2013, the other unit will go to White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Which will go where has yet to be determined, Cody said.


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