Marne 6 Sends
BG John Lubas
Honorary President
Greetings to all Dogface Soldiers and friends of the Marne Division!
Happy New Year to the whole 3rd Infantry Division family. With this new year, come new challenges and operations for the division.
Raider Brigade has completely returned from Europe and has begun training at Fort Stewart. They will go through a series of squad-level training to regenerate from the deployment and begin recertifying their teams and crews. In the spring, they will run the challenging Expert Infantryman Badge qualification to see who will earn the coveted badge. They will continue to enhance their training, personnel, and equipment as a Transformation in Contact brigade—informing the Army on how the future armor formations will fight.
The Division Headquarters and Division Artillery (DIVARTY) deployed to Poland and supported several outreach events within the theater, meeting with local Polish leaders to discuss the shared partnership. They completed a large-scale interoperability exercise called Dynamic Front, incorporating military elements from several NATO countries to share tactics, techniques, and procedures on employing field artillery assets in large-scale combat operations scenarios.
Falcon and Provider, both deployed over several NATO and ally countries in Eastern Europe, continued to provide world-class aviation and logistics support to missions across our area of operations. They continue training to enhance their lethality and readiness while supporting gunnery exercises (aviation and ground) and needed logistics support to the division and V Corps.
Meanwhile at home, 2ABCT is in their winter 45-day field training iteration, Spartan Density. This large-scale exercise sharpened the brigade’s warfighting capabilities, validated battalion-level requirements, and strengthened overall readiness. Building on lessons from Marne Focus, the brigade incorporated new Transformation in Contact (TiC) initiatives to further enhance lethality, while simultaneously supporting 82nd Airborne Division at their Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC). This will all lead to their validation exercise at the National Training Center in the Spring.
January 22, 2026, was the 82nd Anniversary of the Allied Forces Landing in Anzio, Italy. We had the privilege of supporting that ceremony and re-enlisting a handful of Soldiers on the historic beach we landed on in WWII. We got to see historic markers like Audie Murphy’s cave and the battlefield where Maurice Britt earned his Medal of Honor. It was a reminder that our legacy is built on the shoulders of ordinary men and women who rise to the occasion to do extraordinary feats. CSM Durgin and I are extremely proud to be a part of this legacy.
Thank you to all who carry the legacy of this division and who continue to support the Marne community.
Rock of the Marne!