Soldiers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps arrive on Fort Bragg Oct. 28. After completing a nine-month deployment to Germany in support of the NATO alliance. America’s Contingency Corps rapidly deployed in February 2022 with 300 personnel from the Corps headquarters element to provide a Joint Task Force-capable headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany. The deployment was directed by the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III as a response to a heightened security environment in Eastern Europe and to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank.

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