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Army's No. 2 general says 2nd Stryker brigade ready

Aug-17-2004 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- The Army's second Stryker brigade is ready for action, the Army's No. 2 general declared as plans were announced to use the more agile armored vehicle in an overseas troop reduction plan.

"I'm very, very impressed in what I'm seeing with this second Stryker brigade," said Gen. Richard Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff, in a visit Monday to this Army base south of Tacoma. "They're absolutely combat ready."[...]

He was sent by Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to evaluate the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, which recently completed 18 months of training for combat in the smaller, lighter and faster armored vehicles.

The brigade is scheduled for assignment to Iraq in October to replace the first Stryker unit, the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, also from Fort Lewis, currently the linchpin for the multinational Task Force Olympia in the Mosul area. [...]


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