This would be the largest operational deployment of Wisconsin National Guard forces since World War II.
[13] In February 2009 the entire BCT, consisting of 3,200 Wisconsin Army National Guard soldiers, was activated along with six supporting units outside the brigade.
They were given a send-off on 17 February 2009 at the Alliant Energy Center Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin.
Units mobilized with the 32nd BCT were: In October 2019 the brigade headquarters and other augmentation personnel were activated and deployed to Ukraine to take over operations as the head of Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine headquartered at Yavoriv Combat Training Center.
Adopting the name Task Force Juvigny (pronounced "Juv-in-yay") the soldiers sustained base operations and served as advisors to the rotational units coming to the CTC for training before they were deployed to the war in Donbas.
[16] The Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Fort Johnson[17] were the venue for a month-long National Guard exercise involving 5000 soldiers in June 2024.
Live-fire training, and simulated force-on-force engagements in a large-scale combat operation (LSCO) involved the entire 32nd IBCT, as well as soldiers from other states and countries, as a readiness exercise for the National Guard.