October 28, 2008 – 6:27 pm
Photos by SPC Bobbie Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Douglass Sims of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, presents a portrait of the unit to Sheik Abu Ikhlaas, on Oct. 24, 2008. Sheik Ikhlaas is hosting the Farewell/New Beginning Sphere of Influence Transition dinner at his home where the 2nd Stryker Cavalry [...]
October 19, 2008 – 9:02 am
By Stephanie Slepian
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Company E had just assumed control of its command outpost in Al Hadar. The unit spent the first 24 hours fortifying its position. As dusk turned to dawn, a rooftop firefight erupted that would last more than six hours.
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October 9, 2008 – 10:11 am
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
VILSECK, Germany — Fifteen months after they deployed to Iraq, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment troops are returning to Germany.
Fifty soldiers from an advance party marched proudly Wednesday morning into the Memorial Fitness Center at Vilseck where hundreds of family members and friends waited to cheer them home.
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October 4, 2008 – 10:02 am
Families, town anticipate 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment return
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
VILSECK, Germany — Like kids who can’t wait for Christmas, families here have put up the decorations in anticipation [of] the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment’s return.
Stryker soldiers have been in Iraq since August 2007 and are expected home in November. But this week, on-post [...]
October 4, 2008 – 8:46 am
Country music singer Trace Adkins performs his famous song “Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk,” for 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment Soldiers during a concert at Forward Operating Base Warhorse, located in Diyala, Iraq, Sept. 23, 2008. After the concert concluded, Adkins remained behind to sign autographs and take photos with fans.
By SPC Opal Vaughn, 14th Public Affairs Detachment.
Country music [...]
October 4, 2008 – 8:18 am
By SPC Opal Vaughn, 14th Public Affairs Detachment.
Sgt. Rodolfo Carrasco, an Andrews, Texas, native with Supply and Transition Troop, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Regimental Support Squadron, assists in unloading a freight truck to deliver needed supplies to 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment Soldiers at Forward Operating Base Normandy located in the Diyala province, Iraq, [...]
October 2, 2008 – 3:03 pm
For the first time since this unique organization was established in 1979, it’s member units have gathered together in a combat zone.
Commanders representing three of the oldest Cavalry Regiments still active in the US Army, 2d Dragoons, 3d Brave Rifles, and 11th Blackhorse, met at Iron Gast Haus in Tikrit, Iraq, September 20, 2008, to [...]
October 2, 2008 – 11:43 am
By SPC Ryan Elliott, 14th Public Affairs Detachment.
Command Sgt. Maj. Victor Martinez, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, displays his Setson in front of the Regimental Standard. The Stetson is a long proud Army Cavalry tradition carried on by 2nd SCR.
