The Fort Lewis-based brigade will relieve the 101st Airborne Division, which has been restoring order and public services in Iraq's third-largest city and the surrounding areas since April.
... Stryker troops will be trying every day to do a little bit less for the local authorities ahead of June's scheduled handover of sovereignty to a new provisional Iraqi government.
"Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job," said brigade spokesman Lt. Col. Joseph Piek.
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Godspeed, Stryker Brigade!
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