FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team “STRIKE”, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) will return home from Iraq Sunday.
Family, friends and fellow soldiers will gather at a ceremony to welcome the returning soldiers home from their nine-month deployment to Iraq and other areas in Southwest Asia where the unit performed duties as the task force supporting the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve.
Task Force Strike primary mission was to advise and assist, train, and equip the Iraqi security forces to fight and defeat Da’esh; but they also conducted precision surface-to-surface fires; supported a multitude of intelligence and logistical operations for Coalition and Iraqi forces, as well as base security throughout the area of operations.
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