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Jul-22-2008 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

Chris Freiberg with the Daily News-Miner has two new articles from the National Training Center where the 1/25 SBCT is training right now.

Strykers are latest in long line of soldiers to visit remote training center

FORT IRWIN, Calif. — It’s a long and lonely drive to Fort Irwin and the National Training Center. A simple green sign off I-15 in Southern California between Los Angeles and Las Vegas points the way to the base, but there’s no indication of the 30-mile trip to come or of the premiere training facility that lies at the end of the road.

At the off-ramp there are a few houses and at the end of the road there is a truck driving school.

In between is only desert and sky as far as the eye can see.

Fort Wainwright Strykers arrive at National Training Center

FORT IRWIN, Calif. — First Lt. Caitlin Ebbets has spent nearly as much time at the National Training Center as at Fort Wainwright.

The Colorado native asked to be transferred to Fort Wainwright after her previous assignment — in Korea — ended. She moved to Fairbanks in hopes of trying cross-country skiing, but she barely had time to get to know her new home in the Arctic before she and the 4,000 other men and women of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Stryker Brigade Combat Team were shipped to the California desert for training.

“It was hot the first week, but it’s amazing how fast you get used to it,” she said.


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