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Stryker soldiers return

Aug-18-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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Associated Press

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — More than 60 Stryker soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, have returned home after being deployed to Iraq in October. They’re the first of 4,000 Stryker soldiers scheduled to return home from Iraq over the next several weeks.

“The light is definitely on at the end of the tunnel,” said Maj. Nicholas Mullen, the brigade’s rear detachment commander. “The Lancer Brigade has done such a great job, and we’re leaving Mosul a safer place than it was when we got there.” [...]

But despite Tuesday’s return of some soldiers, it’s possible that other brigade members could be held over in Iraq to provide security for Iraq’s national election in October.

But “it’s one step closer to getting everybody else back,” Mullen said.

Since the brigade was deployed to Iraq, 34 members have died and hundreds more have been wounded.

Just hours after the homecoming Tuesday, the Pentagon released the identity Spc. Jose L. Ruiz, a brigade member who died Monday during a driveby shooting in Mosul.


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