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1/25 SBCT at NTC

Jul-28-2008 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

Over the weekend there were two articles published about the 1/25 SBCT training at Ft. Irwin.

Brigade heads south for desert dress rehearsal - KTUU (Includes video)

FORT IRWIN, Calif. -- They've trained for months in frigid Fairbanks winters and now Alaska's Stryker Brigade is battling the desert heat.

It's all in the name of war rehearsal for the 125th as they prepare to deploy.

The environment here is as desolate as it is unforgiving -- where the heat is both felt and seen.

Strykers simulate attacks on terrorist camps - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FORT IRWIN, Calif. — In the past few years, a saying has developed among the soldiers at the National Training Center in California.

“If you can do a month at NTC, you can do a year in Iraq.”

The missions at NTC are more difficult, the insurgent attacks come with more regularity and the enemy is better trained. These facts were especially apparent Thursday afternoon as units from Fort Wainwright’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry prepared for a training assault on two terrorist training camps.


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