Archive for the ‘Stryker’ Category

U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division return off the firing range after completing an alternating movement while engaging targets at 200 to 1000 meters during a live fire training exercise Sept. 19, 2012, at Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, “Gimlets” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division are conducting a month-long exercise at the Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii which is focused on platoon level collective training with enabler integration. The training will culminate in a combined arms live fire exercise later this month. (Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth/Released)

U.S. Army Spc. Warren Feeley, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division, looks through a fire control system inside a M1126 Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICV)while engaging targets with .50-caliber Remote Weapons System Sept. 19, 2012, during a live fire training exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area(PTA), on Hawaii. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division are conducting a month-long exercise at the PTA which is focused on platoon level collective training with enabler integration. The training will culminate in a combined arms live fire exercise later this month. (Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth/Released)
The RWS on the Stryker Murdoc checked out at an auto show a few years back had a black-and-white display for the RWS.

U.S. Army Spc. Warren Feeley (center right), Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division loads ammunition into the .50-caliber Remote Weapons System on a M1126 Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICV) Sept. 19, 2012, prior to conducting a live fire training exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division are conducting a month-long exercise at the Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii which is focused on platoon level collective training with enabler integration. The training will culminate in a combined arms live fire exercise later this month. (Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth/Released)

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, “Gimlets” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division engage targets at 200 to 1000 meters during a live fire training exercise Sept. 19, 2012, at Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, “Gimlets” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division are conducting a month-long exercise at the Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii which is focused on platoon level collective training with enabler integration. The training will culminate in a combined arms live fire exercise later this month.

Soldiers from Alpha Company 1st Bn, 21st Inf. Reg. 2nd Brigade combat Team, 25th Infantry Division tactically dismount from their Stryker vehicle during Foal Eagle 2012 as part of a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise at Rodriguez Range Complex, South Korea.
Seems like virtually all of the exercise images I see of Strykers are WITHOUT the slat armor.
APG’s live fire demonstration is a big blast
Video of armored vehicles opening up at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Watch that Stryker MGS rock.
Army Announces Plans to Reactivate 7th Infantry Division
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash., April 26, 2012 – The secretary of the Army announced plans today to reactivate the 7th Infantry Division and stand up its headquarters here.
The two-star headquarters, which will oversee the training and readiness of five of the installation’s 10 brigades, will fill an administrative layer between those units and I Corps. The division headquarters will not be deployable, John McHugh said during a press conference on the installation…
The soon-to-be reactivated division will encompass 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division; 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division; 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division; 17th Fires Brigade and 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, for a total of some 17,000 Soldiers. But as a nondeployable headquarters, the new division headquarters and its estimated 250 personnel will primarily focus on making sure soldiers are properly trained and equipped, and that order and discipline is maintained in its subordinate brigades.
The brigade combat teams are Stryker brigades based at Lewis with their HQ on the other side of the Pacific. This leaves the 2nd ID with its 1st Brigade and a combat aviation brigade and fires brigade in Korea. I’m not sure if there will be other brigades added to 2nd Division or not.
Fleet of ‘double-V hull’ Strykers growing in Afghanistan
Two hundred of the double-V hulls are now in Afghanistan, with more slated to arrive in coming months, according to Lori Grein, a public affairs officer with the Project Executive Office-Ground Combat Systems. There are almost no flat-bottom Strykers left in Afghanistan, Grein said; most have been replaced by the double-V hulls…
Soldiers who swap the older Strykers for double-V hulls notice few differences.
“Ergonomically speaking they have kept everything the same,” said Wood, 25, of Oakfield, N.Y., who patrols regularly in a double-V hull out of Combat Outpost Talukan in Kandahar province. “All the changes they have made are behind the scenes.”

A Stryker armored fighting vehicle gets upgraded and modified by the General Dynamics team at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Nov. 23. The rocket-propelled grenade grill, which causes RPGs to detonate away from the Stryker, is installed among other upgrades that increase survivability and lethality. Photo by Spc. Ryan Hallock
Story: Strykers get upgrades, modifications at JBLM by patriotic crew

