 Following pre-deployment training and soldier readiness processing, the brigade combat team completed its task organization for combat and deployed its equipment and personnel through Manas, Kyrgyzstan to the Regional Command-South Area of Operations, terminating for theater specific training at Kandahar Airfield.It later assumed security force assistance responsibilities from Combined Task Force Arrowhead, 3–2 SBCT, on 24 November 2012.Including the eight southern Kandahar Districts of Panjwa’i, Dand, Daman, Spin Boldak, Takteh Pol, Registan, Arghistan, and Maruf, the CTF 4–2 area of operations encompassed an area greater than 41,000 km2, approximately the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined.