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oost spotter wrote:both United Kingdom Army

Should be Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm(?)

Also, their visit could perhaps be related to HMS Albion' (L14) arrival in Den Helder Naval Base today.

Spooky wrote:Are we sure they will go via Rotterdam? The ARC Endurance is currently moored in Antwerpen.

Well, we just got our answer (Rotterdam): https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/ ... terbrigade

USS Gravely was still in the Baltic Sea with SNMG 1 Jan. 22.

jreijmer wrote: I don't know what you've read

http://www.eur.army.mil/News/Article-Di ... c-resolve/

Here are some photos of the port operations in Beaumont, TX: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 5501729600

It appears that the CAB designations that we use on this MB are not correct. Apparently it should just be Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (so not 1st CAB) while the unit redeploying should be Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. The "1st CAB" that redeployed from Zeebrugge...

while some 41BGD 17CAV vehicles get loaded into an ARC that indeed looks like Resolve. The vehicle bumper code on that photo should be read as "4ID 6-17 CAV", with 4ID standing for 4th Infantry Division. According to AIS, in the last 20 days, besides MV Resolve (arr 10-07 UTC & dep 11-07 UTC), only...

MV Endurance arrived at the expected dock 09:45 local time today.

Fishbed_9307 wrote: Is it different than the other ARC ro-ro vessels?

It's a lot bigger. Not sure if that's the reason though. Perhaps there could be other logistic/planning reasons as well.

EvD wrote:Apaches from 101st CAB deployed for Inherent Resolve through Rota last month didn't they?

Yes and their predecessors, CAB, 3rd ID just redeployed through Rota on MV Patriot (ARC).

Based on their FB, it looks like 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment (Fort Carson) will deploy in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (not 100% sure though). In that case it's either 4th Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment (also Fort Carson) or a battalion from another Brigade that will deploy to Eu...

tally wrote:Any idea what vessel will be used for the return?

Likely MV Honor (ARC) ETA 13 Jul

Alternatively MV Endurance (ARC) ETA 24 Jul, this would mean the dock has been reserved for the U.S. Army for more than a month

3-227th AVN (Aslt) posted on June 27th: Over the last two weeks, 3-227 AHB flew 20 UH-60M helicopters to the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium. At port, Maintainers from 615th ASB folded the aircrafts’ blades and will prepare them for boat loading. Source with photos: https://www.facebook.com/3227AHB/pos...

Based on their FB, it looks like 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment (Fort Carson) will deploy in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (not 100% sure though). In that case it's either 4th Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment (also Fort Carson) or a battalion from another Brigade that will deploy to Eur...