{"id":69669,"date":"2024-10-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/10\/14\/why-army-divisions-must-prepare-to-get-dirty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:10:07","slug":"why-army-divisions-must-prepare-to-get-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2024\/10\/14\/why-army-divisions-must-prepare-to-get-dirty\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Army divisions must prepare to get dirty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During this past year the Army sent a division headquarters and its enablers <\/a>into a large-scale, on-the-ground exercise to learn how these personnel groups will approach surviving the next war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the first time in decades that division headquarters <\/a>and the myriad units it would go into combat with \u2014 a combat aviation brigade, sustainment, air defense brigade and division artillery \u2014 trained together in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it certainly will not be the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1st Infantry Division, which is based out of Fort Riley, Kansas, is slated for its headquarters rotation earlier next year at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, as the Army continues its years-long shift from focusing on brigade-level conflict to division-centric fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army leaders announced the brigade-to-division change \u2014 and even corps-level units \u2014 as the center of the service\u2019s fight in 2022. Last year Gen. Andrew Poppas<\/a>, head of Forces Command, unveiled the move to deploying division headquarters to the training centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\t