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SEATTLE -- The Army is in the early stages of establishing a third Stryker brigade at Fort Lewis as it nears its goal of creating seven of the units named for the eight-wheeled armored vehicles.
About 200 senior leadership members for the newly named 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division have been arriving at the Army post south of Tacoma since September, said Joseph Piek, a spokesman for the post.
The completion of the new brigade will realize the Army's goal of creating seven of the combat teams to serve as medium-weight, rapidly deployable units to fill the gap between lighter infantry and heavy forces. Four other brigades are in Alaska, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and Germany.
The 5th Brigade joins two other Stryker Brigade Combat teams stationed at Fort Lewis, the 3rd and 4th brigades. While at the post, they report to I Corps.
Previously, Fort Lewis had been home to the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, another Stryker team that earlier this year was renamed the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and transferred to Germany as part of the Army's reorganization. [...]
Once the 5th Brigade is in place, Fort Lewis' active-duty population will top 31,000, Piek said.
He noted there are typically only four infantry brigades in a division and that the latest brigade will eventually be renamed the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division to replace one currently at Fort Carson, Colo. That brigade, he said, will be inactivated by December 2007. The 1st Brigade is based in Korea.