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Relief begins in mid-April and is interrupted on the 18th of the same month when the return of the force is ordered. A Legion force of over 1,000 and specialists from the Engineers Command are sent to be in charge of safely dislodging the installations and transporting the deployed material to Kuwait. 

On 21st April, General Fulgencio Coll hands over command to General José Manuel Muñoz, Commander of the Redeployment Support Force (CONAPRE), thus officially dissolving the 2nd "Plus Ultra" Brigade on 29th April in Botoa (Badajoz).

The mission priority consists of the displacements being undertaken with the utmost security, for which it was necessary to coordinate the operation with U.S. forces. The first phase of redeployment materialized on 26th April. The nearly 150 Spanish soldiers detached on Base " Al Andalus" in Najaf headed for Base "España" in Diwaniya where Spaniards left Najaf, and the U.S. soldiers took positions on the Base to avoid its occupation by the militias of Imam Muktada al Sader who occupied the city. The final 260 Spanish soldiers from the 2nd Brigade "Plus Ultra" reached Kuwait on the afternoon of 27th April, thus completing the withdrawal from Irak of the entire Unit. The redeployment operation has also been coordinated with the Polish command of the Centre-South Division in which the "Plus Ultra" Brigade was integrated.

The last ship arrived at the port of Valencia on 14th July and the Logistics Support Unit from Paterna was in charge of the diagnosis and delivery of the 85 armoured vehicles, 500 wheeled vehicles, 4 helicopters and 260 repatriated containers. At the command of this Logistics Support Unit was Colonel Díez, with personnel from 15 different units.

The Logistics Unit in charge of redeployment, within the Redeployment Support Force, was the 3rd National Logistics Support Element with core troops from the 41st Logistics Support Unit in Zaragoza and with medical personnel from the Army Advance Medical Echelon-Centre. It was made up of: Supply Unit, Maintenance Unit, Transport Unit and Medical Unit, a total of 204 men and women.

This Unit undertook the logistics arrangements and activities necessary to prepare and redeploy the material to Spain in suitable conditions: 

* Estimate and hiring of the necessary means for its transport; containers and transport gondolas.
* Activation and undertaking of all Inventory control actions, reception of material from the force Units and preparation of the corresponding records, reports and the Final Operation Inventory.
* Organisation of the materials by resource Class and their placement in containers.
* Revision and classification of all vehicles.
* Clean-up, NBC action and foot-and-mouth disease disinfection of all materials.

It redeployed all the material from the various Spanish detachments: Baghdad, Najaf and Babil, and concentrated it on Base "España" (Diwaniyah ), later transporting it to Kuwait, with its convoys suffering several ambushes.

When the Spanish force was redeployed to Spain on 21st May it stayed in Kuwait on an American Base located in the Kuwaiti desert (Camp "Virginia" ), until 27th June.
It managed the necessary resources for material transport and loading on the transports hired in Spain for the redeployment, 3 ships and 2 Antonov-type aircraft.

In all, it redeployed 576 vehicles and trailers of all types and 366 20- foot cargo containers with a load of over 600,000 Kg.

On 27th June it was redeployed to Spain and located in Paterna on the 31st Logistics Support Unit's Base.

On 7th August the Unit was dissolved with its actions considered to be finalised.