The next month, he deployed his headquarters and two squadrons to Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia to protect facilities that had been established to refuel the British Eastern Fleet prior to Operation Transom.
The purpose is to test the ability to deploy a headquarters rapidly in a crisis and to carry out a war game, the officials said.
A spokesman for the Central Command said the United States had made no decisions beyond testing its ability to deploy a headquarters and conducting the war game.
I Corps headquarters deployed to Afghanistan to serve as the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command (IJC) for a period of one year.
It is the first time since the Korean War that the Army has deployed a Guard headquarters overseas and the first time ever that it has put one in charge of regular Army troops -- in this case, 2,500 soldiers from one of the service's elite cadres, the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment from Fort Carson, Colo., as well as 40 reservists, and nearly 1,000 guardsmen from a dozen states.
On 4 February 2004, I Corps forward headquarters deployed to Iraq.
Early the next month, its headquarters deployed to Merauke, described by the official history of the RAAF in World War II as "a desolate marshy little port in Dutch New Guinea".
One platoon of five tanks occupied a northern outpost position forward of B Company to prevent the Chinese using the road; another platoon occupied the high ground to the west, with B Company; while the final platoon and Koch's command tank was deployed near Battalion Headquarters, covering a ford by which the road crossed the Kapyong River, approximately 800 m south of B Company.
During this period, SAMS provided planners to help forward-deployed headquarters plan operations and contingencies.
Members of the Headquarters and Headquarters detachment deployed to Vung Tau, Republic of Vietnam on 7 September 1966.
Normally the Brigade only deploys with its Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC); organic battalions and companies normally don't deploy with the HHC.
