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Stryker troops warm up for exercise in South Korea

Feb-26-2008 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

By T.D. Flack, Stars and Stripes

RODRIGUEZ RANGE, South Korea — Sitting high in an observation tower on a ridge above the sprawling Rodriguez Range, Capt. Jeremiah Hurley watched his soldiers pour steady streams of deadly accurate .50-caliber fire from their Stryker light armored vehicles.

“It’s an awesome, awesome machine,” said Hurley, commander of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, as his troops worked through gunnery training.

The Alaska-based Stryker troops are in South Korea for Key Resolve/Foal Eagle, the new name for a training exercise started in the mid-1990s involving branches of the U.S. and South Korean militaries.

As South Korean range employees manipulated the pop-up targets, soldiers in the tower communicated with those safely encased in the Strykers’ protective shells, where gunners operated their .50-caliber weapons via a Remote Weapons Station joystick and thermal imaging system.

Even though Saturday’s training was a just warm-up for the March 2-7 exercise, Sgt. Andrew Brady, a team leader with 2nd Squad, 4th Platoon, explained that every minute of training is important, because the soldiers are headed to Iraq later this year.

“It’s a great facility, and we’re 110 percent focused on the task at hand,” he said of training in South Korea. “This is why we joined the Army.”

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