page_title: 56th Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (United States)
section_title: Iraq deployment
hierarchical_section_title: 56th Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (United States) / Iraq deployment
caption_attribution_description: English: PSD 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Kuwait Members of the Protective Services Detachment, 56th Stryker brigade, conduct urban operations training at Camp Buehring, Kuwait prior to moving to Iraq.
context_page_description: The 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, also known as the Independence Brigade, is a brigade combat team of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. The 56th SBCT is one of nine Stryker Brigade Combat Teams in the United States Army and one of five brigades of the 28th Infantry Division. It is the only reserve component Stryker unit in the Army and provides light infantry land assets for both federal and state active duty missions. The federal mission is to deploy on short notice as part of the 28th Infantry Division and destroy, capture, or repel enemy forces using maneuver and shock effect. The state mission of the brigade is to serve the Governor and the citizens of the Commonwealth as needed in times of natural disaster or civil unrest. The 56th SBCT headquarters is located at Horsham Air Guard Station in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
context_section_description: The brigade trained at Camp Shelby, Mississippi from 19 September 2008 until November 2008 when it moved to the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, Louisiana until December 2008. The brigade continued training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in December 2008 and moved to Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in January 2009 awaiting movement into Iraq. The 56th SBCT, based at Camp Taji, Iraq, conducted operations in the northern Baghdad Governorate, as part of Multi-National Division – Baghdad, from January to September 2009, before redeploying to Kuwait and returning home at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
  56th Stryker Brigade – OIF composition
  Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) (Stryker)
  1st Battalion, 111th Infantry Regiment
  1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment
  2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment
  1st Battalion, 108th Field Artillery Regiment (FAR)
  Battery B, 1st Battalion, 109th FAR
  328th Brigade Support Battalion (BSB)
  2nd Squadron, 104th Cavalry Regiment–Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA)
  856th Engineer Company
  656th Signal Company
  556th Military Intelligence Company (MIC)
  Company D (Anti Tank), 112th Infantry Regiment
caption: 56th Stryker Brigade soldiers in training before going to Iraq.
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