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Army Announces Repositioning Plans

Jul-27-2005 » Filed Under: General Military

The Army today officially announced its realignment plans, which will affect many of the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams (SBCTs). Some of the information released is confusing, and conflicting, but we've provided all the links below so you can read the source documents yourselves.

According to the Pentagon, the realignment will result in 3 SBCTs stationed at Ft. Lewis, each of which will be part of the 2nd Infantry Division. The 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division will be tranformed into a SBCT, and be stationed at Schofield in Hawaii. The 172nd SBCT will return to Alaska following its upcoming deployment and be reflagged as a SBCT of the 25th Infantry Division. Finally, according to Special Assistant to The Secetary of the Army, Ray Bubois, the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division:

will come back to Fort Lewis. The complexity of this is, as it comes back we will refit it, reset it. And the aggregation of the Stryker population here, in June of '06 we will move this organization lock, stock and barrel, and it will come over here [to Germany] and reflag itself as the 2nd Cav Regiment to replace the 3/1 out of 1st Infantry Division and start setting ourselves up for the final footprint in Europe.

Overall there will be 6 active duty SBCTs and 1 reserve SBCT (based in PA) for a total of 7. Please feel free to post any clarifications in the comments section.

Source Documents:

Army Announces Repositioning Plans - American Forces Press Services

Defense Department Special Briefing on Announcement of New Locations for The Active Duty Army's Modular Brigade Combat Teams - Pentagon Press Briefing

Army Unveils Active Component Brigade Combat Team Stationing - DoD Press Release

The Army Modular Force - Interactive map displaying the location of the realigned forces by brigade. Stryker Brigades are designated with an "S".

Stryker brigade will grow by 200 - Honolulu Star Bulletin


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