In 2001, immediately following &lt;a href="9/11"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt;, the Vigilant Knights deployed Soldiers to Afghanistan and numerous other locations in the AOR in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) and again deployed the vast majority of the Brigade’s Soldiers to the AOR in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) in 2002 and 2003. From 2003 to 2005, the Brigade deployed the 202nd and 297th Military Intelligence Battalions to Iraq in support of OIF. From December 2006 to 2008 the Brigade deployed two Task Forces in support of OEF, Task Force Lightning and Task Force Deuce.