Sgt. John Hill, an all-source analyst for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, sits inside his M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, parked on a hilltop along with the 2nd ABCT's Tactical Operations ...

Sgt. John Hill, an all-source analyst for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, provides security on a hilltop overlooking the Tactical Operations Center during 2nd ABCT's rotation at the Nation...

The 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team's Tactical Operations Center sets up a hasty command post on a hilltop a few miles from the Rotational Unit Bivouac Area of Fort Irwin's National Training Center in order to guide units into position as the 2nd ABC...

Pfc. Daniel Porter, an all-source analyst for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, provides security on a hilltop overlooking the Tactical Operations Center, a mobile platform for the brigade c...

Cpt. Justin Deleon, the signals intelligence officer of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, guides his M113 Armored Personnel Carrier from the gunner's hatch during the Tactical Operations Cen...

Capt. Justin Deleon, the signals intelligence officer of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, guides his M113 Armored Personnel Carrier from the gunner's hatch during the Tactical Operations Ce...

As night falls, Pfc. Daniel Porter, an all-source analyst for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, secures his night vision optics to his Advanced Combat Helmet, Fort Irwin, California, Feb. 20...

FORT IRWIN, California -- On day one of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division's rotation at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, the Tactical Command Post sets up on a hill alongside the main route of travel out of the Rotational Unit Bivouac Area in order to direct troop movement.

The Tactical Command Post provides a mobile platform for the brigade commander to direct the battle while the Tactical Operations Center, the brigade's main nexus of operations, is jumping locations.