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Army folds a JBLM Stryker brigade after eight years and three tours
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/03/14/3098016/stryker-brigade-inactivated-at.html
Raider Brigade is part of the 4,500-soldier drawdown coming to the base, post-war
Army folds a JBLM Stryker brigade after eight years and three tours
By ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer
March 14, 2014
Staff Sgt. Michael Glass remembers the blunt question he got from a grizzled platoon sergeant when he showed up at what was then called Fort Lewis for his first assignment in the Army.
“You ready to go to war?”
“Roger, sir,” he replied.
Eight years and three deployments later, Glass is saying goodbye to the only unit he’s known in his Army career: Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.
