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Assistance provided to familis of Stryker soldiers

Aug-12-2006 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By ROBINSON DUFFY, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Welcome home signs still line the main road on Fort Wainwright, though certainly not as many as crowded the fences the last few weeks, before it was announced the Stryker Brigade would not be coming home as early as planned.

The families on base have been coming to terms with the news and gradually taking the signs down.

"The closure (for families) is going and taking down that sign, folding it up and putting it away until their soldiers come home later," Lisa Kroll said. Kroll's husband was one of the troops in the brigade who came home almost a month ago and is now facing the prospect of returning to Iraq.

Now that the initial shock is passing, the families of Stryker soldiers are having to deal with a wide range of emotional and logistical problems as they adjust to the new deployment timetable. The Army has set up a Family Assistance Center on Fort Wainwright to help ease a few of those problems.

"It's kind of like a one-stop to get all of your questions answered," Kroll said. [...]

The phone number to the center is 353-4458 or (800) 352-9013.

While their families are busy here, the Stryker Brigade soldiers are beginning their new assignment in Baghdad. Those members of the brigade who were in Kuwait ready to return home are now in Baghdad, Jacoby said.

Those who have already returned to Fairbanks will know if they are going back to Iraq within the next few weeks. They will ship out to rejoin their brigade as soon after that announcement as possible.


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