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FORT HOOD, Texas — Maj. Gen. Jeffrey N. Colt will assume command as the seventh commanding general of First Army Division West in a ceremony here Tuesday at 10 a.m. on Cameron Field.
Colt, who most recently served as deputy commander, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and commander, U.S. National Support Element Command-Afghanistan, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, replaces Maj. Gen. Warren E. Phipps Jr. who relinquished command on Dec. 4, 2014.
Division West, a subordinate unit of First Army headquarters at Rock Island, Illinois, trains and validates Army National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers for deployment to combat or other contingency operations. The division also trains units of the active Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and United States partner nations, for nearly 40,000 service members every year.
Division West’s eight subordinate training brigades are the 120th Infantry, 479th Field Artillery and 166th Aviation Brigades at Fort Hood, Texas; the 181st Infantry Brigade at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; the 189th and 191st Infantry Brigades at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and the 402nd Field Artillery and 5th Armored Brigades at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Visitors may obtain a one-day special event pass and directions to Cameron Field at the Marvin Leath Visitors Center on T.J. Mills Boulevard.
Media representatives interested in attending the relinquishment of command ceremony should contact the Division West Public Affairs Office and arrive at the Fort Hood Visitor Center no later than 9:15 a.m. to be escorted to the event.
For more information about the change of command, contact Michael Novogradac, Division West Public Affairs chief, at (254) 553-5003 or email michael.m.novogradac.civ@mail.mil.
| Date Taken: | 01.05.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 01.05.2015 12:27 |
| Story ID: | 151365 |
| Location: | FORT HOOD, TEXAS, US |
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