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Training met with fervor as Strykers prep for war

Mar-16-2008 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

By Chris Freiberg, Daily News-Miner

The temperature is in the single digits and a recent dusting of snow has covered the icy patches on the ground, making each step a hazardous one.

Spc. Mike Moore, originally from California, has been waiting outside in this weather for a good half hour, yet he is excited.

“We are super motivated, super pumped about this because we’ve been training all week,” he says enthusiastically, pumping his fists. “There’s nothing I would rather be doing than being with my squad leader, with my squad on this beautiful Alaska day.”

Moore, along with several dozen other members of the Stryker Brigade Combat Team, are training for their upcoming deployment to Iraq in September or October. On Thursday, three squads headed to the Fort Wainwright training grounds to practice a house raid.

But first came the waiting as the “shoothouse” was prepared for the arrival of members of 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry. As soldiers gathered in a parking lot on base, sipping energy drinks, smoking cigarettes and making jokes, there was an unmistakable air of excitement.

“We love doing this kind of stuff,” Spc. Thomas Gianetti said. “It gets us motivated. It’s pretty much a blast for us.”

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