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The 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team is an
infantry brigade combat team The brigade combat team (BCT) is the basic Military deployment, deployable Military unit, unit of maneuver in the United States Army, U.S. Army. A brigade combat team consists of one combat arms branch maneuver Brigade (United States Army), br ...
of the
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of Hawaii. It traces its origins to the 29th Infantry Brigade (Separate) originally formed in the
Hawaii Army National Guard The Hawaii Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. Nationwide, the Army National Guard comprises approximately one half of the US Army's available combat forces and approximately one thi ...
in 1959. The current name and Table of Organisation and Equipment, adopting the new "Brigade Combat Team" structure, was adopted in 2006.


History

The 29th Infantry Brigade headquarters was converted and redesignated from the 120th Signal Support Company on 15 January 1959 at
Fort Ruger Fort Ruger is a fort on the island of Oahu that served as the first military reservation in the Territory of Hawaii. Named after Civil War General Thomas H. Ruger and built in and around Diamond Head Crater, the fort was established by the Unite ...
. A separate brigade, the 29th replaced the 299th Regimental Combat Team under the
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reorganization as the major unit of the
Hawaii Army National Guard The Hawaii Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. Nationwide, the Army National Guard comprises approximately one half of the US Army's available combat forces and approximately one thi ...
. The brigade included the 1st and 2nd Battle Groups of the 299th Infantry, formed from the 299th Regimental Combat Team, and the 284th Transportation Company (Light Truck). The 120th Signal Support Company, constituted on 15 September 1953, had been organized and Federally recognized on 4 January 1954 at Fort Ruger. The brigade conducted its first two-week summer training at
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between 13 and 27 June 1959. During the
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, the brigade was ordered into active Federal service on 13 May 1968 and released from Federal service on 12 December 1969. The 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team is the largest unit in the
Hawaii Army National Guard The Hawaii Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. Nationwide, the Army National Guard comprises approximately one half of the US Army's available combat forces and approximately one thi ...
(HI ARNG). Since 1995, the brigade has been one of the nation's 15 enhanced readiness brigades. This distinction means that the 29th must be trained and equipped to deploy within 90 days of a federal call-up. The brigade has units located on the islands of
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,
Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the islands of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is the largest of Maui County's four islands, which ...
,
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,
Molokai Molokai , or Molokai (), is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) at its greatest length an ...
, and
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, and in the states of
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, and
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. The Brigade's Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 229th Military Intelligence Company, and 29th Support Battalion are located on Oahu at its
Kalaeloa Kalaeloa () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 2,364 at the 2020 census. The community occupies the location of the former Naval Air Station Barbers Point, which was closed in 1999 an ...
facilities, formerly known as
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. The bulk of the 227th Engineer Company's heavy engineering equipment which is located in the Hawaii Army National Guard
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on Oahu. A combat engineering detachment is situated in the community of
Keaau Keaau (also written as Keaau) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii. located in the District of Puna. The population was 1,195 at the time of the 2020 census. The population decreased by 12.1% from 2,253 at the time of the ...
on the island of Hawaii. The brigade's 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery can be found in
Wahiawa Wahiawa ( haw, Wahiawā, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, on the island of Oahu. It is in the Wahiawa District, on the plateau or "central valley" between the two volcanic mountains that comprise the ...
in Central Oahu. The units of the brigade's 1st Squadron, 299th Cavalry, are located in communities throughout the state. The battalion's headquarters and headquarters company is located in
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, Hawaii, with a scout
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detached to Kaunakakai, Molokai. The bulk of the battalion's Company A is located on Kauai in
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, with a detachment in Hanapepe. Company B of the battalion is similarly split between the communities of Kealakekua and Honokaa on the island of Hawaii. Companies C and D are located in Kahului, Maui, and Wahiawa, Oahu, respectively. On 20 July 2004 more than 2,100 soldiers were ordered to report for active duty 16 August 2004, about a month earlier than expected, to begin preparations for a year of combat duty in
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. With six months of training time on the mainland and at least a year in Iraq, the Hawaii soldiers were to be away 18 months. By late February 2005 the 29th Brigade replaced the 81st Brigade of the
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, whose major elements were north of
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in Balad. The brigade returned to the United States between late December 2005 and early January 2006. It was demobilized in March 2006. After returning from Iraq, the brigade became the modular 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. On 16 October 2016, a ceremony was held in
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, AK to activate 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment (AK ARNG). This new battalion was attached to the 29th IBCT with an effective date of 1 September 2016.


Order of battle

*1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment (
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) *1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment (
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) *1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment (Alaska Army National Guard) *1st Squadron, 299th Cavalry Regiment (Hawaii Army National Guard) *1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery Regiment (1-487th FAR) *29th Brigade Support Battalion (29th BSB) *227th Brigade Engineer Battalion (227th BEB) (activated in 2014 from 29th BSTB)


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* {{Cite book, url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-7/cmhPub_60-7-1.pdf, title=Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades, last=Wilson, first=John B., publisher=United States Army Center of Military History, year=1999, isbn=9780160499920, series=CMH Pub 60-7, location=Washington, D.C.
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