More than 300 soldiers in the Tennessee Army National Guard’s Chattanooga-based 230th Sustainment Brigade are preparing to deploy to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn.
According to a new release issued this afternoon, the deployment will bring the total number of Tennessee National Guard soldiers and airmen deployed since 2001 to more than 20,000.
A sustainment brigade has a joint capability that allows the Army to better manage the flow of logistics into an area of operations, the release said. It provides support to other services for common logistics such as fuel, common ammo, medical supplies, repair parts of wheeled vehicles, and so forth, according to the release.