The Red Arrow Brigade is descended from the fabled 32nd Red Arrow Division, an infantry outfit mobilized in 1917 with 15,000 Wisconsin and 8,000 Michigan National Guardsmen -- the division earned its distinctive insignia, a vertical red arrow through a horizontal red bar, by piercing every enemy line it encountered in four World War I campaigns.
In February 2009, the entire 32nd Brigade Combat Team, 3,200 Wisconsin Army National Guard soldiers, were activated along with six supporting units outside the brigade. They were given a send-off for a one-year deployment on 17 February 2009 at the Alliant Energy Center Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin. This is the largest operational deployment of the Red Arrow Brigade since World War II!
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