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2/25 SBCT Prepares for Summer Deployment

Oct-26-2009 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Gregg Kakesako of the Honolulu Star Bulletin takes a look at the training of the 2/25 SBCT.

POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA, Hawaii » Col. Malcolm Frost, preparing for a summer deployment to Iraq, faces a daunting task after losing nearly half of his Stryker brigade to transfers and attrition.

Frost also realizes that his 2nd Stryker Warrior Brigade Combat Team could be making history when the U.S. draws down its force of more than 143,500 soldiers to a 50,000 "noncombat" force in August.

"I see this as a tremendous honor," said Frost, 43, last week as he observed a platoon from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry, practice entering a faux Iraqi town and clearing several of its structures on this vast training range on the Big Island.

"It's finishing the mission and finishing the mission with honor," he said. "We will leave it under Iraqi control where the government is sovereign and free. There is a good chance we will be a part of history."


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