Volume 13, Number 1  Published in the interest of the National Training Center and Fort Irwin community • www.irwin.army.mil  January 6, 2016

                        Back to Work

Fort Irwin, CA - After a well-deserved break for the holiday season, the National Training Center and Fort Irwin is getting ready to host the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th
Infantry Division for rotation 17-03.
Elements of the 1st SBCT started arriving over a week ago, most of the unit’s personnel and equipment will be at the NTC by this weekend.
After spending next week in preparation for their 14-day rotation, they will roll out to the box on January 13th and face o against the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.

Digging the Past

                                                  By Ken Drylie                                     In the 1800’s the gold rush brought an in ux of miners into the area in search of their
                                                                                                 fortune. Some of these hardy souls would perish in the harsh climate of the desert, some would
                                           High Desert Warrior Editor                            establish the rst towns and villages in the area.
   Fort Irwin, CA - 10,000 years ago, the High Mojave Desert was home to Native Americans
of several tribes. e ancient Mojave Desert was a much di erent place, it’s believed that the           e deserts of the National Training Center and Fort Irwin are rich with the evidence of
area was much less arid; with much more vegetation, marshes and with water lling what are        the lives of those who used to call the Mojave Desert home. Projectile points, old tin cans,
now dry lakes. e identity and lifestyles of those early desert dwellers is unclear and there is  and discarded items are now considered historic artifacts. Preserving and protecting the sites
very little evidence to understand the day to day events of their lives.                         where those artifacts are located falls under the responsibility of the Department of Public
   Later, the Piaute, Shoshone, and Mojave tribes are among those thought to have frequented     Works Environmental Division.
the area. ese people led a nomadic life, wandering with the seasons; hunting and gathering
what foodstu s the desert provided.                                                                    e Fort Irwin Archeologist, Coral Eginton, overseas the work of the team of archeologists
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