; Whereas, in August 2004, the 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, deployed with the Republic of Korea Army, representing the first operational deployment from the Republic of Korea; Whereas the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, was given control of the Eastern half of Ar-Ramadi under the direct command of the 1st Marine Division; Whereas elements of the 2d Infantry Division were attached to the 2d Marine Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom, a reversal of their respective roles during World War I, where the 5th and 6th Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division fought under the United States Army 2d Infantry Division; Whereas the 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, fought in the Fallujah Offensive in November 2004, which provided Iraqis the opportunity to vote in the historic national elections of January 2005; Whereas the 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, provided humanitarian relief to hospitals, schools, and hundreds of Iraqi civilians who had been displaced; Whereas the 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, redeployed from Iraq to Fort Carson, Colorado in August 2005; Whereas the 3d Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, deployed from Fort Lewis, Washington, to assist the Iraqi security forces with counter insurgence operations in the Ninewa Province in support of Iraqi Freedom from June 2006 to September 2007; Whereas the 2d Infantry Division transformed into the Republic of Korea-United States Combined Division with a Republic of Korea Army unit on June 3, 2015, in a cooperative designed to strengthen the operational capabilities of both the Republic of Korea Army and the United States Army; Whereas the 2d Infantry Division is the last remaining permanently forward-stationed division in the United States Army; Whereas the 2d Infantry Division has been deterring aggression and maintaining peace on the Korean Peninsula since 1965; Whereas the 2d Infantry Division received 2 Korean Presidential Unit Citations for its outstanding service in Korea from 1950 to the present