On 23 April 2007, the 35th Signal Brigade (Airborne) cased its colors and was redesignated as the 35th Signal Brigade (Theater Tactical), receiving a new abbreviation—35th TTSB—and a new location for its Headquarters and Headquarters Company: Ford Gordon, Georgia, designated Fort Eisenhower as of 27 October 2023.
As the end of major U.S. military actions in Iraq drew within sight in 2009, the 35th Signal Brigade was called in to provide the installation, operation, maintenance, and engineering of the Iraq Theater Information Grid. Tasked with ensuring that Coalition forces would be able to continue to rely on the Army’ C4I system in the Iraq Joint Operating Area, the 35th was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation for its superior performance and earned a campaign streamer for taking part in the Iraqi Sovereignty campaign of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The Brigade comprises four subordinate units, all designated as Expeditionary Signal Battalions; the 67th is based at Fort Eisenhower, while the 51st is stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington and the 50th is located at the Brigade’s old home of Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg). Until 2015, Fort Eisenhowerwas also home to the 63rd ESB, but in February of that year it was relocated to Fort Stewart (also in Georgia).
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The 35th Signal Brigade unit crest, aka Distinctive Unit Insignia, includes a scroll at the bottom with the motto of “Utmost Of Our Ability.” Orange and white, the colors of the Signal Corps, are employed for the scroll and two facing lions, respectively. The lions, inspired by the state seal of Burman (also called Myanmar), are a nod to the unit’s World War II service in Burma and represent the two campaigns the unit participated in there (Central Burma and India-Burma). A sun with twelve rays is borrowed from the flag of China, while the bell in its middle reflects its use as a method of transmitting signals.
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