
POPE ARMY AIR FIELD, N.C. – Soldiers of the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps have begun deploying to Kuwait and should have fully assumed their role leading the counter-ISIL campaign by mid-August, completing the transcontinental swap of nearly 450 troops and their equipment.Much of the equipment – command, control and communication systems, vehicles, aircraft – the unit will use is already in theater, Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Steve Towsend said during a short talk with reporters today. Some systems both units…