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Brigades Swapping Roles

Feb- 8-2009 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT , 56th SBCT

According to the Lebanon Daily News, the 56th SBCT is taking over for the 2/25 SBCT as it redeploys to Hawaii.

Most of the soldiers from Pennsylvania’s 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team are now at their base in Iraq after spending several weeks in Kuwait.

And they are ready to take a seat, so to speak.

The brigade will be based at Camp Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad, according to brigade spokesman Capt. Cory Angell. It will replace the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from the 25th Infantry Division out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, which has spent the past 15 months there. The 56th Stryker Brigade comprises 4,122 soldiers, about 130 of whom hail from Lebanon County.

Angell said the two units are preparing to do their “right-seat, left-seat” transition.


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