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5/2 SBCT Officer Describes Deployment

Jul- 9-2010 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

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Like all soldiers, 1st Lt. Tracy Tyson, 25, U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, has seen hard times. For now, let’s talk about the good — and there is a lot — that is being done all over Afghanistan.

Tyson deployed with the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, an infantry unit structured around the Stryker fighting vehicle. Operating from Kandahar Airfield, KAF, in southern Afghanistan, Tyson is a Preventive Medicine Officer. Tyson and Staff Sgt. Matthew Canady, a Preventive Medicine Technician, have traveled throughout southern Afghanistan and occasionally into other areas.

The primary mission is to take care of U.S. soldiers — approximately 4,000 infantrymen — in the 5th Stryker Brigade. At this point, Tyson and Canady face a unique challenge. The 5th Stryker Brigade has set up and torn down a large number of Forward Operation Bases, FOBs, which house 1,000 troops, and Combat Outposts, COPs, home to 100 soldiers or less.


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