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Stryker reserve celebrates groundbreaking

Apr-21-2007 » Filed Under: 56th SBCT

Earl Corp, The Meadville Tribune

CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS — Usually when talking to a soldier about a piece of Army equipment, there will be a list of ways to improve it as far as “the boots on the ground” are concerned.

But when Spec. Kirk Hinz of Erie was asked to comment on the Stryker Fighting Vehicle on Friday afternoon at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Cambridge Springs Readiness Center and Field Maintenance Shop, he had nothing but praise.

“It’s held up to what’s expected so far — and it’s getting better,” he said.

Hinz would know. He drove a Stryker when it was an experimental vehicle at Ft. Knox, Ky., in 2000.

The 10-year veteran has driven many vehicles in the Army’s inventory including the Humvee, and to Hinz, there’s no comparison.

“The Stryker is an easy, quick and effective deployment vehicle — it definitely has some power,” he said at the ceremony to bring a Stryker training facility to Crawford County. In the southeastern corner of Cambridge Springs, next to the Cambridge Springs State Correctional Institution, earth is already being moved to place the facility at the former Alliance College site. Nearly 75 people attended the event.

The new facility will be home to the National Guard’s only Stryker Brigade. Of the seven active Stryker Brigades, six are within the active components ranks. [...]


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