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Reset Underway For Strykers at JBLM

Oct-11-2010 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT , 4/2 SBCT , 5/2 SBCT

Getting their wheels back - The News Tribune

Work has been fairly relaxed for thousands of infantrymen since they returned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord this summer from yearlong assignments in the Middle East. They’ve been going to classes, checking their gear and doing physical training in the mornings.

Anything more complicated would require the soldiers to have possession of their Strykers – the 21-ton combat vehicles they left behind in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan.

The pace is about to pick up, with the base delivering new vehicles to its three Stryker brigades. By the end of the year, more than 900 Strykers should be rolling around the base and on South Sound roads headed to the Army’s training grounds near Yakima.


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