Task Force Red Dragon Pre-Deployment Training - 2021

Approximately 1,000 Army National Guard Soldiers will mobilize as Task Force Red Dragon under the command of the Lynchburg-based 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team to provide a security force in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa.

Virginia Army National Guard units from Bedford, Charlottesville, Lexington, Pulaski and Suffolk and a Kentucky Army National Guard unit from Somerset, Kentucky are part of the task force.

Read more about the mobilization at go.usa.gov/xFK9K.