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Strykers file into port for shipment to Iraq

May-23-2006 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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By Jim Szymanski

OLYMPIA — A convoy of Stryker vehicles and other Army equipment made its way through downtown Monday on its way from Fort Lewis through the Port of Olympia to Iraq.

By the end of today, as many as 300 Stryker vehicles will have arrived at the port, said Fort Lewis spokesman Joe Hitt. A total of 20 convoys of trucks and Stryker vehicles are expected to make the trip from Fort Lewis.

The equipment will be loaded on a ship bound for Iraq....

The shipments are in advance of the deployment to Iraq next month of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, based at Fort Lewis.

The 3rd Brigade is the Army’s initial Stryker Brigade Combat Team and was the first of the Stryker brigades to be sent to Iraq in late 2003.

Hitt offered little in the way of detail regarding the convoys. “Basically, all we have to say is what’s on the (news) release,” he said.

A three-paragraph release said Fort Lewis Military Police were escorting the vehicles to Olympia, and it warned motorists to be aware of the Strykers....


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