1st Military Intelligence Brigade (United Kingdom)
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1st Military Intelligence Brigade (1 MI Bde) was a formation of the British Army formed after the Future Army Structure review reform, but in 2014 was absorbed into the new 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade.
History
After the 2003 Iraq War, code-named
2nd Medical Brigade. The brigade's mission was "to command troops, and to prepare, deliver & sustain MI (military intelligence) & PSYOPS (Psychological operations) formations in order to conduct land operations in support of Land Command and Defence tasks".[2][3]
Even though the brigade never deployed, its sub-units did have detachments serve during
Operation Telic and Operation Herrick. Under the Army 2020 programme announced in 2010, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance formations were to be grouped together to form a new unit under Force Troops Command. Therefore, by September 2014 the brigade was disbanded and its military intelligence battalions went to form part of 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade,[2] while 15 Psychological Operations Group moved to 77th Brigade.[2]
Organisation
Brigade organisation was:[2][4]
- Headquarters 1st Military Intelligence Brigade, at Chicksands Station
- 1st Military Intelligence Battalion, at Joint Headquarters Rheindahlen, Germany (supporting 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division)
- 2nd Military Intelligence Battalion, at AAC Netheravon(Intelligence Exploitation)
- 3rd Military Intelligence Battalion (TA), HQ in Defence Intelligence Staff)[5]
- 3rd (United Kingdom) Mechanised Division)
- 5th Military Intelligence Battalion (TA), HQ in Edinburgh[2] – formed on 1 April 2008
- 15 Psychological Operations Group, at Chicksands Station (Joint Tri-Services)
Footnotes
- ^ "HQ Theatre Troops Organisation". army.mod.uk. Archived from the original on 8 November 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Tanner, pp. 36, 91.
- ^ "Mission". 2008-03-13. Archived from the original on 2008-03-13. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ "Organisation". 2008-03-13. Archived from the original on 2008-03-13. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ "Int Corps - 3 (V) MI Bn". 2006-01-03. Archived from the original on 2006-01-03. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
References
- Tanner, James (2014). The British Army since 2000. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing. OCLC 944154544.