2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division coming home (again)

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Most-deployed brigade coming home from Iraq
By Pauline Jelinek - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 5, 2007 20:35:09 EDT

The Army brigade that has served the most time on the battlefield since 2001 is coming home. But as they return, troops may have to leave two of their own in Iraq.

Members of the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, are searching up to the last minute, trying to find two fellow soldiers captured by insurgents and missing since May.

“This is still our brigade’s No. 1 priority,” its commander, Col. Michael Kershaw, said Friday.

“We’ve been doing everything possible to bring them back before we leave,” he told Pentagon reporters in a videoconference from Iraq.

Spec. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, were seized May 12 when insurgents attacked and overran a checkpoint during an operation to intercept people placing roadside bombs on a dangerous road south of Baghdad.

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Casualties taken by the 3,600-member brigade have totaled 52 killed and more than 270 wounded in action, Kershaw said.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_mountaindivision_home_071005/