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Apr- 4-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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By Rusty Marks
STAFF WRITER

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — Teddy Kleisner has always been fascinated with the military.

Family photos show a smiling young man peering out from under a green Army helmet, small hands clutching a toy rifle. Even then, Teddy wore camouflage, his battle dress sporting an Army Ranger patch.

“He would get up at 5 in the morning and do maneuvers in the woods,” Karen Kleisner, Teddy’s mother, remembers.

Today Teddy Kleisner, 28, is a battle captain with the 3rd Brigade of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division in Iraq. Known as the Stryker Brigade — for the Stryker armored cars the unit rides into battle — it is an elite military force stationed in Mosul in northern Iraq.


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