76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ( United States ) The 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ( " Night Hawks " ) is a modular infantry brigade of the United States Army National Guard of Indiana . It is headquartered in Lawrence Readiness Training Center , on the grounds of Fort Benjamin Harrison . History . In the buildup to World War I , the United States Congress approved the formation of seventeen new National Guard divisions , numbered 26 through 42 . The states of Indiana , Kentucky , and West Virginia were chosen to provide units for the 38th Infantry Division . Indiana ' s 151st and 152nd Infantry regiments formed the new 76th Infantry Brigade . The 38th Division never deployed to Europe , and was released from federal service in 1919 . The 38th Division was activated for federal service again in 1941 , with the same organizational structure that had been used in World War I . However , in 1942 , the Army reorganized its structure , and the 76th Brigade ceased to exist as in identifiable military organization . On 1 March 1963 , as part of the Army ' s Reorganization Objective Army Division ( ROAD ) , the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 1st Brigade , 38th Infantry Division was born . Less than 20 months later , it was restored to its 1917 designation of 76th Infantry Brigade , known as the " Blue Devil " Brigade . Since the creation of the 76th Brigade at Indianapolis on 1 November 1965 , the unit has moved to Columbus , to Camp Atterbury and to Bedford , with units located throughout southern Indiana . Out of the ashes of the Blue Devil Brigade , the Nighthawk Brigade was formed . The 76th Infantry Brigade ( Separate ) was formed on 1 September 1994 at Indianapolis , Indiana this time with units located throughout the state of Indiana . The Nighthawk Brigade was selected to be one of the 15 enhanced brigades with a charter to achieve and maintain a higher state of readiness than previously expected of National Guard brigades . The unit relied heavily on the existing infantry regiments . The lineage of each combat regiment still in Indiana can be found within the brigade . Under a plan approved by Army Chief of Staff General Eric K . Shinseki , in December 2000 the Army announced which active and reserve forces will see service in Bosnia and Kosovo through May 2005 . Under the plan , units from the active Army and reserve forces supported the Stabilization Force mission , known as SFOR , in Bosnia or the Kosovo Force , known as KFOR , for six - month periods . SFOR 11 ( April 2002 – October 2002 ) consists of the 116th Cavalry Brigade ( enhanced separate brigade ) , Idaho Army National Guard ; 76th Infantry Brigade ( enhanced separate brigade ) , Indiana Army National Guard . Units from the 34th Infantry Division , Minnesota Army National Guard , also supported SFOR 11 . Late 2002 the 76th BDE was called on to provide a Separate Infantry Battalion to provide support for an escalating campaign in the Middle East . The 1st Battalion , 293rd Infantry Regiment was mobilized to camp Arifjan Kuwait on 2 January 2003 . The " Nightfighters " setup security for the newly constructed support base . On D + 5 the 1st Battalion , 293rd Infantry Regiment was called on to move north to support Operation Iraqi Freedom . On 6 April 2004 elements of the 76th Infantry Brigade were ordered to mobilize for deployment to Afghanistan . Three hundred soldiers from the 113th Support Battalion , and an unidentified number of soldiers from the 1st Battalion , 151st Infantry Regiment , the 38th Military Police Company , and the 1438th Transportation Company began deploying in July 2004 . The unit suffered at least four casualties , on 26 March 2005 , four soldiers , Captain Michael T . Fiscus , Master Sergeant Michael T . Heister , Specialist Brett M . Hershey , and Private First Class Norman K . Snyder were killed when a mine detonated near their vehicle as they were traveling near Kabul . In October 2004 , the 376th Engineer Company was mobilized for duty in Mosul , Iraq , in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom . In November 2012 , Headquarters Company returned from a nine month deployment to Afghanistan , in support of Operation Enduring Freedom . Order of battle . The brigade is currently composed of the following units :