9.USAr - Fort Irwin

US Army Ft Irwin; National Training Center http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/National_Training_Center_SSI.svg
Activated in WW2 as Mojave Anti-Aircraft Range; renamed Camp Irwin; then Armored Combat Training Area; as of 1961 Fort Irwin and used deploying forces to Vietnam. As of 1972 California ArNG assumed responsibility and from 1972 -1980, Fort Irwin was used as a training area by the Army National Guard and US Army Reserve. As of 1981 transferred back to USAr as National Training Center http://www.irwin.army.mil/Pages/default.aspx

Currently based::
- HQ NTC
- Joint IED Defeat Org
- 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/11th_Armored_Cavalry_Regiment_CSIB.svg serving as the Opposing Force (OPFOR). The enemy for the military forces training at Ft Irwin.
-- 1st and 2d Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry (Combined Arms Squadrons)
-- 1st Battalion, 144th Field Artillery Regiment (CA ARNG)
-- Support Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

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