27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States)
The 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Empire") is an infantry brigade combat team of the New York Army National Guard, one of the brigades that make up the 42nd Infantry Division. The state mission of the 27th Infantry Brigade is to maintain a manned, trained and equipped force capable of rapid deployment to any area within New York to aid civil authorities. The 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team is also tasked with overseas deployment missions and must be capable to respond to any threat, foreign or domestic. History After World War I the 27th Infantry Division was reactivated back in the New York National Guard for peacetime service, climaxed by participation in the First Army maneuvers of 1940. Composition of the Twenty-Seventh Division between the wars Fifty-third Infantry Brigade 105th Infantry 106th Infantry Fifty-fourth Infantry Brigade: 107th Infantry 108th Infantry Fifty-second Field Artillery Brigade: 104th Field Artillery (75mm) 105th Field Artillery (75mm) 106th Field Artillery (155mm) 102nd Ammunition Train Special Troops: Headquarters & Headquarters Company 27 Military Police Company 27th Signal Company 27th Tank Company 102nd Ordnance Company Separate Units: 102nd Engineer Regiment 27th Division Aviation (102nd Observation Squadron) 102nd Medical Regiment 102nd Quartermaster Regiment World War II The 27th