The Rosemount-based 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division consists of eight major subordinate commands. More than 5,200 Soldiers make up the brigade’s combined arms, armor, cavalry, infantry, artillery, engineer and brigade support battalions, constituting more than half of the Minnesota Army National Guard’s total force structure.

There are eight major support commands that now make up the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team: Headquarters and Headquarters Company in Bloomington; 334th Brigade Engineer Battalion in Bloomington; 134th Brigade Support Battalion at Camp Ripley; 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 194th Armor Regiment in Brainerd; 1st Squadron, 94th Cavalry in Duluth; 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery in New Ulm; 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry in Moorhead and 1st Battalion, 145th Armor Regiment of the Ohio Army National Guard. The Mankato-based 2nd Battalion, 135th Infantry is a Minnesota Army National Guard Battalion which administratively falls under the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team but is in an aligned for training relationship with the Iowa Army National Guard’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division.

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The 34th Red Bull Infantry Division

Soldier fires a Javalin Missile

This week we learn about the Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division and their National Training Center rotation and other missions this year for the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division. We’ll also get an update from the flag line of the Minnesota Patriot Guard. Guests include:

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1st Armored Brigade Combat Team and MDVA Programs

 

1st Armored Brigade Combat Team and MDVA Programs

This week in the Twin Cities metro we are broadcasting live from the Serving Our Troops event at Camp Arifjan Kuwait Please tune in to Twin Cities News Talk AM1130 or iHeartRadio at 0700 this Sunday.

Outside the metro we discuss the 1st Brigade, 34th Infantry Division national training center rotation, learn about Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs programs and services and get an update from the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. Guests include:

 

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Live from Kuwait with the Red Bulls

We hop a flight to the Middle-East and go live with the Red Bulls. The Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Brigade, 34th Red Bull Infantry Division is deployed here in Kuwait supporting the draw down of Iraq. Our guests include:

  • Col. Eric Kerska, Commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Red Bull Infantry Division
  • Maj. Jerry Gunn, Logistics Officer, 134th Brigade Support Battalion
  • Lt. Col. Brian Melton, Commander, 1st Battalion, 194th Armor
  • Command Sgt. Maj. John Lepowsky of the 1st Battalion, 194th Armor

Check out our photos!

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