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New Stryker Brigade

Sep-30-2009 » Filed Under: General Military

Can anyone confirm this news, as reported by the El Paso Times?

EL PASO -- Fort Bliss will get an additional 300 soldiers when the 1st Armored Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team becomes a Stryker brigade upon its return from Iraq, Congressman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said Tuesday.

The conversion to the new Stryker vehicle will take two years and will bring with it 300 to 400 more troops to the post, Reyes's office announced.

Update 10/1: Thanks to commenters and others for pointing us to this Army Times article confirming the transition of not one, but two heavy brigades to SBCTs.

Two heavy brigade combat teams will vanish by 2013 to make way for two new Stryker brigades, bringing the Army’s number of active SBCTs to eight and taking another bite out of its armor formations.

Planning documents obtained by Army Times say 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas, and 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas, will be converted to SBCTs beginning in fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2012, respectively, and will take 24 months to become fully operational.


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