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May-31-2010 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

Battalion among hardest hit in Afghan war - The Associated Press

The battalion's story is an extreme example of the challenges American soldiers face in Afghanistan. ad_icon Click here!

The battalion is part of the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, which originally trained for urban combat in Iraq. But the mission changed in the final months of training, and the brigade's 130 Arabic students took a crash course in Pashto, the language of Afghanistan's largest ethnic community.

The battalion's Stryker vehicles, prized for their speed and mobility, were making their debut in the Afghan war. But they could not operate in rough terrain where soldiers had to get around on foot.


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