Description Nearly 1,500 US soldiers participated with members of the Kuwaiti armed forces in Exercise Intrinsic Action 98-1. US Central Command's army component and Kuwaiti armed forces participated in Exercise Intrinsic Action 98-1, scheduled to begin Jan. 20, 1998 and to continue until mid-April 1998. The exercise will involved approximately 1,500 U.S. Army soldiers. The deployment included a battalion task force, combat support units and combat service support units. The task force deployed without equipment and will use prepositioned equipment in Kuwait. More than 1,200 soldiers from Fort Benning's 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division deployed in January 1998 for Exercise INTRINSIC ACTION 98-1. The task force, consisting of two mechanized infantry companies, two tank companies, a field artillery battery and engineer company, trained with units from Kuwait's 35th Brigade after the Ramadan religious period ends on January 28th.