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NRDC-ITA Support Brigade

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ85787555 ↗
Source-derived summary

The NRDC-ITA Support Brigade is a support brigade of the Italian Army. Originally raised on 1 October 2001 as Signal Brigade (renamed NRDC-ITA Support Brigade on 30 September 2007) the unit's mission since its inception has been to support the NATO-assigned Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy (NRDC-ITA). Unlike the multi-national staff of the NRDC-ITA the brigade is manned exclusively by Italian personnel. The brigade deployed to Afghanistan in 2006, 2009 and 2013.

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The public source identifies “NRDC-ITA Support Brigade” as military unit. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around NRDC-ITA, Support and Brigade.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2007, 2006, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with NRDC-ITA, Support and Brigade providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “NRDC-ITA Support Brigade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.