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Pennsylvania National Guard Stryker Unit Prepares For Iraq

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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt The Defense Department yesterday said the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), 28th Infantry Div., Pennsylvania National Guard is among the units scheduled to deploy to Iraq in early 2009. "Everyone pretty much knew it was coming," Public Affairs Spec. Matthew Jones told Defense Daily. The SBCT sent two infantry companies and one unmanned aerial vehicle platoon to Iraq. The 56th SBCT is the Army's sixth Stryker brigade, approved by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2003. So…

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