56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team to Train at Fort Stewart

It seems that the 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (TX Army National Guard) will be training at Fort Stewart much as the 76th BCT did in January and February of this year.

I heard some traffic on the Fort Stewart TRS last week that makes it sound like the 4th Cav Bde will once again be doing the training. Some of the same callsigns have been heard: STALKER, RENEGADE, BLACKJACK, THUNDER, GUNNER, and DAGGER callsigns were heard on TG 10096. WOLVERINE was heard on TG 8944


Mac McCormick III, KF4LMT
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4th Cavalry Brigade Talkgroup Assignments

I have been using the ID Tracker and BC796D combination to track the 4th Cavalry Brigade activity on the Fort Stewart/Hunter AAF TRS much as I have been using it to figure out the new MedStar activity on the Chatham-Effingham TRS. It has been an invaluable tool because it allows me to run it unattended while it matches audio to talkgroup IDs. I have been able to sit down the last few mornings and afternoons and match ID Tracker's data and audio to my own scribbled notes from mobile monitoring.

As a result, I have been able to identify a few more 4th Cavalry Brigade talkgroup assignments. My listing of identified 4th Cav Bde assignments are:

TG 6992 = 4th Cav Bde "SABER NET"
TG 7184 = 4th Cav Bde Net (possibly Fires Net)
TG 8240 = 1-409 CAV, RENEGADE Net
TG 8272 = 1-410 MLRS, RAIDER Net
TG 8432 = 3-410 EN, THUNDER Net
TG 8464 = 3-337 CS/CSS, WOLVERINE Net
TG 8528 = 1-411 LSB, BLACKJACK Net
TG 4432 = unknown unit designator, BUSHMASTER Net

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net

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