SEAN COCKERHAM; The News Tribune
MOSUL, IRAQ –The platoon members emerged from their armored Stryker carriers to a scene of awful destruction. A suicide truck bomb had exploded and killed 10 Iraqi civilians waiting in line to buy gasoline.
Even these Tacoma-area combat veterans were shocked last week when confronted with shredded buildings and a 15-foot-deep crater blasted into the ground.
They didn’t seem fazed by the hu- man remains, though. They’d seen it before.
Soldiers from 1-23 INF, 3/2 SBCT are featured in this video segment from FOX News, which includes an interview with LTC Smiley.
By Gregg K. Kakesako, Honolulu Star Bulletin
Government lawyers say that halting Schofield Barracks' $1.5 billion Stryker unit would do "irreparable harm" to the Army, soldiers of the 2nd Brigade and the nation's security.
They oppose a motion by island environmentalists and Hawaiian activists who want the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to approve a temporary order halting all work on Stryker-related activities in Hawaii.
FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- A U.S. Army soldier was killed and a second soldier injured in a training accident at Arizona's Yuma Proving Ground, the Army said Wednesday.
The incident at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday happened during practice at a firing range with live ammunition. Soldiers were shooting light machine guns -- M-249 squad automatic weapons -- at targets, said Fort Lewis spokeswoman Tammy L. Reed.
By DEAN BAKER Columbian staff writer
A Vancouver soldier suffered wounds to his eye, jaw and face recently in Iraq and was recovering Monday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Staff Sgt. John P. Kaiser Jr., 28, was wounded by a 120mm mortar round that landed in front of a hatch on a Stryker vehicle where he was standing, said a neighbor, Linda Kelly. She wasn't sure of details of the event, and family members weren't available for comment.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 24, 2006 – Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers are searching for U.S. soldier missing since yesterday evening. Officials have not released the soldier’s name.
Soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team and the 4th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, along with the Iraqi National Police, mounted an intensive effort to locate the soldier by using all means available, including attack aviation elements and unmanned aerial vehicles.
By William Cole, Honolulu Advertiser
Three Hawaiian groups are seeking a federal court halt to all Army Stryker activities until alternatives to basing the fast-strike unit in Hawai'i are examined.
The latest court clash comes as the commanding general of U.S. Army Pacific at Fort Shafter, Lt. Gen. John M. Brown III, confirmed that the 3,900-soldier Stryker brigade, already well into training, is slated for an Iraq deployment.
CNN's John Roberts is embedded with the 1-17 INF, 172nd SBCT in Bagdhad and reports that the unit was dispatched today to search for a US soldier who is missing. Other news outlets claim the soldier is from the 4th ID, but we haven't seen any confirmation from the military yet. You can read the CNN article online, and also watch a video report from Roberts in Baghdad (in left column under "Videos"). If you can't find the video try this direct link.
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Troops Look for American Soldier Missing in Baghdad - The New York Times
by Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th MPAD
MOSUL, Iraq— Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3-2 SBCT, out of Fort Lewis, Wash., took to the streets Sept. 28, along side Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army Forces, greeting and meeting residents in a community engagement effort meant to encourage the familiarity and trust of residents in Mosul.
Iraqis took the lead during the patrol, with the American Soldiers only pulling security and observing.
“We are trying to help build up the goodwill of the people,” said 1st Lt. Phillip D. Schneider, “That is how we are going to defeat the insurgency.”
By Margaret Friedenauer, Daily News-Miner
BAGHDAD — If nothing else, the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team’s move to Baghdad has put the first 12 months of deployment into perspective for some battalions.
“You don’t realize how successful we were up there until you come down here,” said Capt. Dave Bedard of Anchorage, with the 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery Regiment of the Stryker Brigade.
