Updated at 1:19 p.m., Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Strykers leave Hawaii for California en route to Iraq
Advertiser Staff
The Army's 310 Stryker vehicles today are being loaded on the cargo ship MV Jean Anne at Pearl Harbor for training in California, and following that, a deployment to Iraq.The staging at Pearl Harbor represents the last time the 19-ton armored vehicles will be seen on O'ahu for about 18 months because the Strykers will be shipped to the Middle East from the West Coast and then operate for a year or longer in Iraq before being shipped back.
Approximately 2,000 pieces of equipment, including the Strykers, Humvees, trucks, trailers and artillery, are being transported on two shipments. It's the largest military shipment from Pearl Harbor in decades.
All 4,000 Stryker brigade soldiers will train at Southern California Logistics Airport and then undergo brigade certification exercises at the National Training Center.
Soldiers will start leaving for Iraq in November.
