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Stryker soldiers have faith in their ride

Mar- 1-2006 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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BY SCOTT GUTIERREZ, The Olympian

FORT IRWIN, Calif. — The first soldiers to take the Army’s state-of-the-art yet much-maligned Stryker vehicles into combat say they are as confident as ever about the vehicles’ capabilities as they prepare for a second deployment.

Soldiers from the Fort Lewis-based 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, have spent the past month at the Army National Training Center in the Mojave Desert preparing for their return to Iraq in June.

The 3/2 is the Army’s first Stryker Brigade Combat Team, the centerpiece of a multibillion dollar plan to transform the Army into a more versatile fighting force. It also was the first of the Stryker brigades to be sent to Iraq in late 2003. [...]


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