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Fort Lewis revolving door keeps turning

Oct- 5-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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By Michael Gilbert, News-Tribune

Nearly all the Stryker soldiers are home, but Fort Lewis still has some 3,000 soldiers either in Iraq or Afghanistan, or on their way soon.

The post has military police, medics and engineers spread across the Middle East and Central Asia. More engineers and support troops are bound for locations all over Iraq in the next few weeks.

Meantime, all but the last few flights of soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division have returned from their year in combat. About 200 more returned Tuesday morning, with another 130 or so due late Tuesday night.

“You remember this day for the rest of your life,” the brigade commander, Col. Robert Brown, observed as soldiers and family members reunited at Soldiers Fieldhouse.

Beaming parents stopped on their way out of the building to shake the colonel’s hand and thank him for bringing their loved one back home. Brown in turn thanked each of the parents. [...]


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