| 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) | |
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| Active | 1921 – present |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Army |
| Nickname(s) | The Vermont Brigade (special designation)[1] |
| Anniversaries | 30 June 1921 |
| Decorations | Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 October 1944 to 4 July 1945 (Headquarters and Headquarters Company) |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Colonel Leonard J. Poirier (since June 2022) |
| Notable commanders | Leonard F. Wing Wayne H. Page Bruce M. Lawlor Thomas E. Drew |
| Insignia | |
| Combat service identification badge (CSIB) |  |
| Former CSIB |  |
The 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) ("The Vermont Brigade"[1]) is an Army National Guard light infantry brigade headquartered in Vermont.[2] It was reorganized from an armored brigade into an Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) as part of the United States Army's transformation for the 21st century. The 86th IBCT utilizes the Army Mountain Warfare School, co-located at Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, Vermont, to train in individual military mountaineering skills so the entire brigade can be skilled in such warfare. This large conventional unit level mountain warfare capability had been lost when the 10th Mountain Division deactivated after World War II. This left the 86th IBCT as the only mountain warfare unit in the U.S. military whose soldiers were trained in mountain warfare, with individual soldiers being graduates of Ranger School, the Special Forces Advanced Mountain Operations School, and the Army Mountain Warfare School instead of entire units that specialized in such tactics. "The Vermont Brigade" configured itself to be such a unit.
- ^ a b "Special Designation Listing". United States Army Center of Military History. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ^ Vermont Army National Guard homepage, last accessed 3 December 2011