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Article: Innovation in redeployment: the 1st Infantry Division returns from Iraq: when the Big Red One left Iraq, it learned that a redeployment is not just a deployment in reverse. Army doctrine needs to reflect this reality.
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The redeployment of the 1st Infantry Division from north central Iraq to its home station demonstrated the complexity of conducting a deliberate relief-in-place and a redeployment simultaneously. It also highlighted a shortfall in current Army doctrine on the planning of redeployment operations. According to Field Manual (FM) 100-17-5, Redeployment, "All deployed forces eventually redeploy, perhaps using the same means of conveyance and many of the same procedures and processes." However, the 1st Infantry Division movement cell recognized that redeployment operations do not necessarily mirror deployment operations. Redeployment scenarios vary widely based on available ...