If you follow the link there is a video clip from today's homecoming at Ft. Lewis for the 1-23 INF. I'm sure the clip will be on KIRO 7 tonight as well.
FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- About 300 more members of the first Stryker brigade returned Monday to Fort Lewis.
They were welcomed by family members at a gym on the Army base.
About 4,000 members of the first Stryker brigade are in the process of being replaced by the second Stryker brigade from Fort Lewis. Soldiers are returning in planeloads over the next couple of weeks.
Three members from the unit that returned Monday died during its year in Iraq. Joseph Blickenstaff of Corvallis, Oregon, Christopher Wesley of Portland, and Steven Bridges of Tracy, California, died December eighth when an embankment collapsed under their Stryker combat vehicles, plunging them into an Iraqi irrigation canal.
Stryker Soldiers Return To Fort Lewis
If you follow the link there is a video clip from today's homecoming at Ft. Lewis for the 1-23 INF. I'm sure the clip will be on KIRO 7 tonight as well.
[Link to Article]FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- About 300 more members of the first Stryker brigade returned Monday to Fort Lewis.
They were welcomed by family members at a gym on the Army base.
About 4,000 members of the first Stryker brigade are in the process of being replaced by the second Stryker brigade from Fort Lewis. Soldiers are returning in planeloads over the next couple of weeks.
Three members from the unit that returned Monday died during its year in Iraq. Joseph Blickenstaff of Corvallis, Oregon, Christopher Wesley of Portland, and Steven Bridges of Tracy, California, died December eighth when an embankment collapsed under their Stryker combat vehicles, plunging them into an Iraqi irrigation canal.
