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More On Rotation

Jan-17-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Here's an Associated Press article that talks more about the troop rotation in Iraq, including a bit about the Stryker Brigade. Excerpts:

He said the military will also lessen the concentration of heavy equipment like tanks, multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery, which were essential at the time of Iraq's invasion in March last year.

Instead, the troops will be given 323 new high-tech fighting vehicles known as Strykers, reinforced armored Humvees and infantry armored personnel carriers to counter the hit-and-run attacks and roadside bombings that the troops have been increasingly facing...

Much of the reduction will be in northern Iraq, where minority Kurds are the closest Iraqi allies. The number of troops will go down in the north from about 19,000 to 9,500, but they will be equipped with the highly mobile Stryker vehicles, said the official.

The Stryker is an eight-wheeled vehicle with onboard computers and can carry as many as 11 soldiers, capable of traveling faster than 100 kilometers (60 miles) per hour.

"That is a smaller force but a more capable force on a man to man basis," he said.


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