The 101st ABN was not impressed. Lots of streets in Mosul Strykers can't get down.
I'm not a tanker, and Iraq was the first time I was given humvees to move my team around. I am not a mechanized guy by trade. That having been said, what I saw in 'Stryker country' was that those machines do not leave the wire unless they absolutely have to. For the time I was there I'd say that our two gunvees got way more 'face time' on raids than any Stryker.
I don't blame this on the Stryker drivers at all. They don't make the rules, and I'm sure that they'd like to get to do more than they do. But the word on the street is that losing Strykers will destroy OERs. Lots of OERs. Now, I can't speak to the merits or faults of the Strykers, but its clear that there are segments of the Army leadership that are fishing hard for good press.