4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Stewart

On 08 January 2008, Larry Van Horn, on his Monitoring Times MilCom blog, posted the following report about the 76th Brigade Combat Team, IN ARNG deploying to Fort Stewart for training:

http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/01/guards-76th-brigade-mobilizes-for-iraq.html

The 76th BCT is indeed at Fort Stewart training. Another unit, the 4th Cavalry Brigade, has deployed to Fort Stewart to train the 76th BCT. The 4th Cavalry Brigade is a unit dedicated to training other units to deploy to combat areas. They are normally based at Fort Knox, but have deployed to Fort Stewart to conduct the 76th BCT's training.

I have not been able to monitor any of the 76th BCT's traffic. I have been able to monitor some of the 4th Cavalry's training coordination communications on the Fort Stewart Trunked Repeater System. There has been no tactical communication to monitor, but there has been interesting coordination traffic.

I have been able to determine callsigns for most of the 4th Cavalry Brigade units:

SABER = 4th Cav Bde
BLACKJACK = 1-411 LSB
BUSHMASTER = unknown, apparently recently joined Bde
RAIDER = 1-410 MLRS
REDLEG = 2-410 FA
STALKER = 2-340 CS/CSS
THUNDER = 3-410 EN
WOLVERINE = 3-337 CS/CSS

Listed below are some of the Fort Stewart TRS talkgroups being used by the 4th Cavalry Brigade to coordinate training operations. Keep in mind that these talkgroups may not be used for the same purpose at Fort Stewart in the future; they are in temporary use by the 4th Cavalry Brigade and are not permanent assignments.

TG 6992 = 4th Cavalry Brigade "SABER NET"
TG 8240 = 1-409 CAV Net
TG 8272 = 1-410 MLRS Net


Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net