Tag: stryker
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Fort Carson-based Stryker brigade conducts live missile-firing exercise
The Fort Carson-based 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division on Thursday conducted a live-firing exercise, testing out a familiar weapons system with a new capability. (Video: O’Dell Isaac)
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MILITARY | Soldiers load Stryker vehicles aboard C-5M Galaxy
Soldiers with Fort Carson’s 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division, trained Thursday to load eight-wheeled 18-ton Stryker vehicles aboard the Air Force’s cavernous C-5M Galaxy as airmen from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., practiced how to chaining and securing the heavy gear so it wouldn’t come loose in flight. (Video by David…
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Big guns will boom at Fort Carson as unit conducts drills
Artillery will boom at Fort Carson Friday as the 3rd Brigade Combat Team drills with its big guns. The 4,200-soldier brigade is equipped with 155 mm self-propelled artillery along with an array of M-1 Abrams tanks and M-2 Bradley fighting vehicles. The Friday exercise focuses on drilling artillery crews, the post said in a news…
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Army boss Esper has high hopes for Fort Carson brigades
Those eight-wheeled Strykers coming to Fort Carson are a perfect fit for the place, says Army Secretary Mark Esper. Esper was in town last week on his first official stop at Fort Carson after a year in the Army’s top civilian job. He played a key role in figuring out what to do with the…