It was later reduced in size to a mechanized brigade.
Its main sub units were 69th 70th and 71st mechanized brigades.
There's a heavy mechanized brigade doing intensive training down south.
The mobile militia will be reduced from eight to six mechanized brigades.
In 2003 the division was redesignated as 24th Mechanized Brigade.
He was promoted to kombrig and appointed commander of a mechanized brigade.
I have seen this battlefield, where entire mechanized brigades of Soviet tanks were reduced to rubble.
The first modernized vehicles entered service with the 282nd Mechanized Brigade in 2005.
Currently the brigade is the only mechanized brigade that does not have any conscripts.
They are used by the 1st Mechanized Brigade which is based in Taji.