Editing Fort Riley (section)

===The 1990s and beyond===
Following Operation Desert Storm, the 1st Infantry Division returned to Fort Riley. However, the winds of change were once again blowing across the Army, affecting the post. With the crumbling of the Iron Curtain, new realities in Eastern Europe were replacing the Cold War of the past four decades. Budget cuts and revised strategic thinking resulted in troop cutbacks.<ref name="History" />

In the spring of 1995, the headquarters of the 1st Infantry Division were transferred from Fort Riley to Germany. The 1st Brigade of the Big Red One remained at the post, along with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, and the 937th Engineer Group.<ref name="History" />

Fort Riley once again became a Division Headquarters on June 5, 1999, with the reactivation of the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized). The 24th Infantry Division (Mech.) is the headquarters for three enhanced Separate Brigades (eSBs) of the Army National Guard. Under the integrated Active Component/Reserve Component concept, the [[24th Infantry Division (United States)|24th Infantry Division]] (Mech.) consists of an active component headquarters at Fort Riley and three enhanced Separate Brigades: the 30th Heavy Separate Brigade at Clinton, North Carolina, the 218th Heavy Separate Brigade at Columbia, South Carolina, and the 48th Separate Infantry Brigade in Macon, Georgia. These units underwent eight-year training cycles, culminating in a rotation at the National Training Center. They also backfill active duty units for Major Theater War contingencies and supply units for Stabilization Force rotations in Bosnia.<ref name="History" />

On June 1, 2006, Fort Riley began training [[Military Transition Teams]], or MiTTs. These 10-15 man teams from across the Army, Navy, and Air Force train at Fort Riley's Camp Funston for 60 days. The focus of the transition team training was to prepare teams to train, mentor, and advise Iraqi and Afghan security forces. Training is based on core competencies—combat skills, force protection, team support processes, technical and tactical training, adviser skills, counter-insurgency operations, and understanding the culture.<ref name="Schwind 2006">{{cite web |last=Schwind |first=Jennifer |title=Transition teams: making a difference |website=DVIDS |date=August 11, 2006 |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/news/8226/transition-teams-making-difference |access-date=September 21, 2024 |archive-date=September 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921033117/https://www.dvidshub.net/news/8226/transition-teams-making-difference |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Rome 2009">{{cite web |last=Rome |first=Parker |title=Fort Riley trains last transition team before mission moves to Fort Polk |website=US Army |date=August 5, 2009 |url=https://www.army.mil/article/25521/fort_riley_trains_last_transition_team_before_mission_moves_to_fort_polk |access-date=September 21, 2024}}</ref>

====Return of the 1st Infantry Division====
[[File:1st Infantry Division Make-A-Wish foundation activity.jpg|thumb|Ian Field, 7, stands with his squad during a farewell award ceremony April 15, 2011, at Barlow Theater on Fort Riley. The Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division worked with the [[Make-A-Wish Foundation]] to grant Ian's wish to become a soldier]]
On August 1, 2006, the 1st Infantry Division returned to Fort Riley, and the [[24th Infantry Division (United States)|24th Infantry Division]] was inactivated.<ref name="Roberts 2006">{{cite web |url=http://roberts.senate.gov/08-01a-2006.htm |title=Senator Roberts welcomes Big Red One home to Kansas |publisher=Kansas State Government |access-date=August 25, 2009 |archive-date=August 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806043656/http://roberts.senate.gov/08-01a-2006.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="p538">{{cite web |title=Mission & History of the 1st Infantry Division |website=US Army |url=https://www.1id.army.mil/About-Us/Mission-History/ |access-date=September 13, 2024}}</ref>

In October 2006, the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, assumed command and control of the [[Military transition team|Military Transition Team]] training mission. The entire division took the lead on this mission for the military. The mission was moved from Fort Riley to Fort Polk, LA, in the summer of 2009.<ref name="Rome 2009"/>