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Mobilization put to the test

Mar-29-2007 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

By William Cole, Honolulu Advertiser

Hawai'i Stryker vehicles made a bit of history this month, deploying for the first time out of the state for war games in South Korea.

Also tested for the first time was their ability to be transported on C-17 Globemaster III cargo planes that were brought to Hickam Air Force Base in part to rapidly transport the fast-strike Stryker brigade.

The four 19-ton Stryker vehicles and about 50 soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Wolfhounds are due to return Monday morning on two Hawai'i-based C-17s, the Army said.

The Strykers took part in Reception Staging Onward- Movement and Integration and Foal Eagle 2007 in South Korea. The exercise runs through the end of the month and involves 29,000 U.S. troops.

The Navy, which brought in the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other ships, said the training is one of two annual "command post" exercises held to demonstrate U.S. support of South Korean forces.

The C-17s dropped off the four Stryker vehicles and soldiers in Daegu, South Korea, the Stars and Stripes newspaper reported.

"It's really a test to see how quickly we could mobilize," said 1st Lt. Dustin Lujan, 2nd platoon leader. [...]


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