About 300 early-returning Stryker soldiers from Iraq were scheduled to arrive today at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. [...]
And they will come home more than a month earlier than most of their comrades of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Last August, the Army’s original Stryker brigade left Lewis-McChord on what was supposed to be a year-long deployment – its third tour of Iraq since 2003.
The homeward-bound soldiers belong to two different battalions: the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment.
About 300 early-returning Stryker soldiers from Iraq were scheduled to arrive today at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. [...]
And they will come home more than a month earlier than most of their comrades of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Last August, the Army’s original Stryker brigade left Lewis-McChord on what was supposed to be a year-long deployment – its third tour of Iraq since 2003.
The homeward-bound soldiers belong to two different battalions: the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment.