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First contingent of Stryker soldiers returns Sunday

Aug-12-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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BY CHRISTIAN HILL, THE OLYMPIAN

FORT LEWIS -- Nearly 150 soldiers from the Army's second Stryker Brigade Combat Team return home next week to prepare for the arrival of the unit's remaining soldiers from Iraq.

Planes carrying the rest of the soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, should begin arriving within three to six weeks, said Joseph Piek, a civilian spokesman at the Army post.

About 75 soldiers from the unit's "Torch Party" are expected Sunday, with about the same number set to arrive Wednesday.

The soldiers returning Sunday will be reunited with family members after a brief ceremony at Wilson Gym.

The group represents a small number of soldiers from each of the brigade's units.

"They basically need to come here and get acquainted with where their representative units are located and open things back up to receive the unit," Piek said. [...]


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