7th Infantry Division

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The 7th Infantry Division is a forward-thinking active-duty infantry division of the United States Army, with its main base located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The division takes charge of sustaining the combat readiness of two Stryker brigade combat teams, a combat aviation brigade, a division artillery headquarters, and a national guard Stryker brigade combat team, while also participating in numerous yearly partnered exercises and operations to support U.S. Army Pacific and the Indo-Pacific region. As the only active-duty multi-component division headquarters in the Army, the 7th Infantry Division stands out from the rest. The division is also home to two of the Army's most advanced enabling battlefield capabilities: the Multi Domain Task Force and the Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space Capabilities, or I2CEWS battalion. The division was first activated in December 1917 during World War I, with its main base located at Fort Ord, California for much of its history. Although some elements of the division saw brief active service in World War I, it is best known for its participation in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II where it took heavy casualties while engaging the Imperial Japanese Army in the Aleutian Islands, Leyte, and Okinawa. Following Japan's surrender in 1945, the division was stationed in Japan and Korea, and with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, it was one of the first units to see action. It took part in the Inchon Landings and the advance north until Chinese forces counter-attacked and almost overwhelmed the scattered division. The 7th later went on to fight in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and the Battle of Old Baldy. After the Korean War ended, the division was headquartered at Camp Casey with artillery units supporting the 1st Cav Division just south of the DMZ until the mid-1960s. In the late 1980s, it briefly saw action overseas in Operation Golden Pheasant in Honduras and Operation Just Cause in Panama. In the early 1990s, it provided domestic support to civil authorities in Operation Green Sweep and during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. The division's final role was as a training and evaluation unit for Army National Guard brigades, which it undertook until its inactivation in 2006. On April 26, 2012, the Department of Defense announced the reactivation of the 7th Infantry Division headquarters to support the mission of America's First Corps.