In the spring of 2004, the Department of Defense selected the Army National Guard’s 42nd Infantry Division Headquarters to lead combat forces in Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The mobilization and deployment to combat of more than 2,500 members of the Army’s famous “Rainbow Division” would mark the first time since the Korean War that a National Guard division headquarters would deploy to a theater of combat and likely the first time that elements of the Active Army would be placed under the combat command of National Guard forces.
March 30, 2007
