1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment

This Friday (28 Sept) head over to Custer Hill Parade Field for the Dagger Brigade Fall Fun Event from 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM!

🍂🎉 DAGGER FALL FUN IS HERE! 🎉🍂

Come join us this Friday for an afternoon full of excitement, games, and community spirit! This event is FREE for all 2ABCT Soldiers and Families — you won’t want to miss it.

✅ Bouncy Houses
✅ Tug-of-War / Volleyball / Flag Football
✅ Food Trucks — including Filos Foods and the Dagger BDE Food Truck (💵 bring cash for food!)
✅ Static Displays
✅ Leadership Dunk Tank

📅 Friday, 26 September
🕒 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Custer Hill Parade Field

Bring your family, bring your energy, and let’s make it a great day together!

Thank you to all of those who attended last week’s Vanguard Ice Cream Social! We also would like to thank a few others for making it a great event:
- The Commanding General's Mounted Color Guard for bringing horses and the wagon
- The Fort Riley Firemen who let us explore the fire truck
- All of the grill-masters across the unit who kept the burgers coming
- Party Penguin Face Paint for the killer face paintings!
- ACS for the grab bags with books and resources for military life

Also a huge thank you to Operation Homefront and their partnership with the Dollar Tree stores in Manhattan and Wamego for collecting school supplies and generously donating them to our Vanguard kids, helping us to create over 150 back to school bags for kindergartners through high schoolers. (If you need one just shoot us a message!)

First to battle! ’Til the last round!

Some new leadership was ushered into the Vanguard Battalion just the other week. Chaos Company hosted a Change of Command, welcoming CPT Dewberry as their new commander. CPT Dewberry is replacing CPT Gudorf after 19 months of outstanding leadership in Chaos Company.

Iron Company then hosted a Change of Responsibility, welcoming 1SG Eberting. We’re grateful for 1SG Sanchez, who worked tirelessly to support the soldiers of Iron Company on a daily basis.

‘Til the last Round!