56th Theater Information Operations Group
The 56th Theater Information Operations Group is a brigade-sized command of the United States Army National Guard based in Washington, and Maryland.It assumed its current organizational structure as of September 1, 2009[update], when the Maryland Army National Guard activated the 110th Information Operations Battalion.[12][13] In 2015, the Washington Army National Guard reorganized, designating the 56th TIOG as a major subordinate command within the state.[18] Later that year, on September 29, 2015, the 56th moved into the Information Operations Readiness Center (IORC), Joint Base Lewis-McChord, after commemorating its opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.[23][24] In January 2021, the 56th TIOG established and assumed command of a 380-person joint task force composed of Washington Army and Air National Guard personnel that soon deployed as part of 25,000 National Guardsmen to Washington D.C., providing security for the 2021 Presidential Inauguration[25][26] as part of Operation Capitol Response.
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