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Feb-27-2011 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

Fort Wainwright s Stryker brigade combat team begins training in California - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS — Some 4,000 soldiers from Fort Wainwright’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry arrived at the Army’s National Training Center in Southern California last week.

They will spend a month there before they depart for Afghanistan in May.

Located at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert, the National Training Center will give the Arctic Wolves a better sense of the climate they will face in Afghanistan and the challenges they will encounter working with Afghan people.

The Army has built mock Afghan villages in the desert and uses more than 200 role players to prepare soldiers for situations they might face. Some of the role players are Afghan nationals.


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