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The final garrison posture at the end of TF 1st Armored Division’s campaign in Baghdad consisted of the eight Expeditionary FOBs built for the 1st Cavalry Division to occupy as it relieved 1st Armored Division. Outlined in green, they dominated the Green Zone, but otherwise removed most US forces to the city perimeter. Note: DIVARTY had replaced 2d/82d in South Baghdad at this point.
Although most artillery of TF 1st Armored Division remained out of use, with the battery personnel deployed as infantrymen, the 4.2-in. mortars of the task force provided most of the indirect fire support, especially when an accurate and timely plot of insurgent firing positions could be made. Here an M106A2 mortar carrier of 1st Brigade fires at night.