Vigilant Ready: 205th MI Battalion Ensures Trained and Ready Intelligence Teams for Pacific Engagement

With more than 82,000 Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Pacific Command, the Department of Defense's rebalance towards the AsiaPacific region coupled with a decades-long tradition of theater security cooperation program (TSCP) events, ensures that U.S. Army units in the Pacific are staying "globally responsive and regionally engaged. "2 The emergence of the "Pacific Pathways" initiative, which seeks to establish "a semi-permanent presence in parts of the Pacific," demands not only ready brigade combat teams, but a host of key enablers.3 The 205th Military Intelligence (Ml) Battalion, part of the 500th Ml Brigade's Anchor Point in the Pacific, plays an integral role in this regional engagement by providing trained and ready intelligence teams ready to deploy in support of a host of contingency operations and partnering opportunities.