# 204th Military Intelligence Battalion **Aliases:** 204th MI Battalion **Entity class:** United States Army military-intelligence unit ## Definition The **204th Military Intelligence Battalion**, based at [[wiki/Fort Bliss|Fort Bliss]], belongs to the [[wiki/116th Military Intelligence Brigade|116th Military Intelligence Brigade]] and supports worldwide aerial intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and target-acquisition operations. In 2025 the Army installed its first [[wiki/Virtual Aerial Systems Trainer|Virtual Aerial Systems Trainer]] classroom at the battalion to prepare personnel for [[wiki/ATHENA Aerial ISR|ATHENA]] and [[wiki/HADES|HADES]], including electronic-intelligence and sensor tasks. This makes the battalion a documented demand-side node for AI-era ISR exploitation, without proving that its workloads run in either new El Paso data center. ## Relationships - **subordinate to:** [[wiki/116th Military Intelligence Brigade|116th MI Brigade]] and [[wiki/Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]]. - **located at:** [[wiki/Fort Bliss|Fort Bliss]]. - **trains for:** [[wiki/ATHENA Aerial ISR|ATHENA]] and [[wiki/HADES|HADES]] using [[wiki/Virtual Aerial Systems Trainer|VAST]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [INSCOM — 116th MI Brigade and 204th MI Battalion](https://www.usainscom.army.mil/MSCs/The-470th-MI/Command/) - [U.S. Army — first VAST classroom, May 19, 2025](https://www.army.mil/article/285641/pd_sai_delivers_first_virtual_aerial_systems_trainer_classroom_to_the_army)