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The 3rd Infantry Division activated its 4th Brigade Combat Team in a ceremony on 26 May 2004 at Fort Stewart. Colonel Edward C. Cardon assumed command of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, "Vanguard," adding a fourth brigade to the 3rd Infantry Division, the first division to reorganize under the Army's new modularity concept.
The 4th Brigade Combat Team is composed of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment; 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment; 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry; 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery Regiment; 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, and the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion. The BSTB combines military intelligence, signal, and military police units under a single battalion.
The 4th Brigade was organized to combine combat and combat-service-support Soldiers under the same command, typically the way the division deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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