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Schofield Stryker brigade will return to Iraq
POSTED: 08:10 a.m. HST, Oct 08, 2009
Schofield Barracks 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat team is returning to Iraq next summer, about 16 months after its last deployment.
About 4,300 soldiers and 322 light-wheeled, 19-ton Stryker combat vehicles are expected to deploy, Army officials said today. In February, about 3,600 25th Division soldiers and 300 Stryker vehicles returned home after spending 15 months in the war zone.
They are part of the three brigades and one armored cavalry regiment with 15,000 soldiers that the Pentagon said will be sent to Iraq next year.
Col. Malcolm Frost, commander of the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade, said to prepare for the year-long tour his unit will go to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in Southern California's Mojave Desert in February.
Until then, the brigade will rotate its soldiers and Strykers to the Big Island's Pohakuloa Training Area.
The 2nd Stryker Brigade has been to Iraq in 2005 and 2009. The last deployment was for 15 months and was the first time the Schofield Barracks unit deployed with 300 Stryker combat vehicles. During the 2008-2009 deployment, 11 Stryker soldiers were killed.
One of Frost's battalion --- 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt. Col. James Isenhower -- is in India for the annual joint exercise called "Yudh Abhyas" ("training for war") in Hindi. The war games will run for two weeks beginning Monday. The 2nd Squadron will be in Babina, about 275 miles southeast of New Delhi.
A live-fire exercise will be held Oct. 26 involving soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade and a brigade of 600 to 800 India army soldiers.
Seventeen Stryker combat vehicles were deployed for the first large-scale ground exercise for U.S, troops in northern India.
Schofield Barracks 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat team is returning to Iraq next summer, about 16 months after its last deployment.
About 4,300 soldiers and 322 light-wheeled, 19-ton Stryker combat vehicles are expected to deploy, Army officials said today. In February, about 3,600 25th Division soldiers and 300 Stryker vehicles returned home after spending 15 months in the war zone.
They are part of the three brigades and one armored cavalry regiment with 15,000 soldiers that the Pentagon said will be sent to Iraq next year.
Col. Malcolm Frost, commander of the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade, said to prepare for the year-long tour his unit will go to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in Southern California's Mojave Desert in February.
Until then, the brigade will rotate its soldiers and Strykers to the Big Island's Pohakuloa Training Area.
The 2nd Stryker Brigade has been to Iraq in 2005 and 2009. The last deployment was for 15 months and was the first time the Schofield Barracks unit deployed with 300 Stryker combat vehicles. During the 2008-2009 deployment, 11 Stryker soldiers were killed.
One of Frost's battalion --- 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt. Col. James Isenhower -- is in India for the annual joint exercise called "Yudh Abhyas" ("training for war") in Hindi. The war games will run for two weeks beginning Monday. The 2nd Squadron will be in Babina, about 275 miles southeast of New Delhi.
A live-fire exercise will be held Oct. 26 involving soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade and a brigade of 600 to 800 India army soldiers.
Seventeen Stryker combat vehicles were deployed for the first large-scale ground exercise for U.S, troops in northern India.
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