Stryker

...you come back to the United States. You're pretty far gone by that time," Seth Manzel, who spent two years in Iraq with the Army's 1st Stryker Brigade, said recently as he poured free drinks in honor of Veterans Day. "We wanted to get...

In this article: Iraq, Fort Lewis, Afghanistan, Stryker Brigade, Geography, Iraq War, and Evergreen State College

...for the service at the Army base south of Tacoma, gave a quiet and personal talk directed to the families of the seven members of a Stryker combat unit. They were killed Oct. 27 by a roadside bomb in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.

In this article: Afghanistan, Fort Carson, Joe Biden, Fort Hood, British soldier, 4th Engineer Battalion, Colorado, and Barack Obama

...final passage. The Senate bill provides almost $144 million in funding for projects at Fort Lewis. It includes $102 million for a new Stryker brigade complex, $15.6 million for a health and dental clinic, plus funding for a new facility for...

In this article: Fort Lewis, Department of Veterans Affairs, Dog, U.S. Senate, Lewis, and Washington

...S. Aamot, 22, of Custer, Wash.; specialist, Army. Aamot was one of two soldiers killed Nov. 5 when a roadside bomb exploded under their Stryker vehicle in Jelewar in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, on the Pakistani border. He was...

In this article: Brigade Combat Team, Afghanistan, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, 25th Infantry Division, 17th Infantry Regiment, Oh-58 Kiowa, Stryker vehicle, and Baghdad

...helmets on top - to symbolize the fallen. The infantrymen were on patrol in southern Afghanistan when a powerful roadside bomb blew up the Stryker vehicle they all were riding in. Vice President Joe Biden said he came to deliver the nation's...

In this article: Fort Lewis, Joe Biden, Afghanistan, Stryker vehicle, Barack Obama, Fort Hood, and Washington

...his perspective on the accelerating violence and signs of hope that he found there. KABUL - After spending two weeks in the field with Stryker Brigade soldiers in southern Afghanistan, my camera was in sorry shape. Dropped once and choked...

In this article: Afghanistan, Taliban, Stryker vehicle, Kabul, Panasonic, United States, Washington, D.C., and U.N.

...deployment. Aamot's family told The Bellingham Herald on Friday that their son and a fellow soldier died when Aamot drove his Stryker vehicle over a buried explosive in southern Afghanistan. That story appeared Saturday in The News...

In this article: Fort Lewis, Afghanistan, The Bellingham Herald, 17th Infantry Regiment, and Department of Defense

...C. Tirador, of Colonie, N.Y., died in Kirkush, the release said. She was a member of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division the Army s original Stryker brigade which deployed in August for its third deployment to Iraq since 2003. Tirador was...

In this article: Times Union, Iraq, Fort Lewis, 2nd Infantry Division, and Department of Defense

A Bellingham area soldier who was assigned to Fort Lewis was killed in Afghanistan Thursday after he drove his Stryker vehicle over a buried explosive, according to his family. Spc. Aaron Aamot, 22, belonged to the 5th Brigade, 2nd...

In this article: Bellingham, Afghanistan, Fort Lewis, Chicken, 2nd Infantry Division, and 17th Infantry Regiment

...in a roadside bomb attack. On one of the last missions of his young life, Spc. Kyle A. Coumas had to carry the extra ammunition for his Stryker brigade squad. The extra 120 pounds wore on the Central California native as he marched...

In this article: Fort Lewis, Arghandab River, 2nd Infantry Division, and 17th Infantry Regiment