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  • Goodbye, ordinary world ("Army's second Stryker brigade" deploying to Iraq)

    10/02/2004 2:53:23 PM PDT · by Ragtime Cowgirl · 23 replies · 856+ views
    The News Tribune ^ | October 1, 2004 | ANGIE LEVENTIS
       BRUCE KELLMAN | THE NEWS TRIBUNE Some blank-faced, some smiling, soldiers with the 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment leave McChord Air Force Base on Thursday for Kuwait. The 400 or so men and women will eventually see combat in Iraq. They replace soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, who start returning next week. Goodbye, ordinary world ANGIE LEVENTIS; The News Tribune Lt. Daniel Burkhart spent the last few days before his deployment to Iraq with his parents who flew in from Massachusetts to say goodbye. His mother, Sandra Burkhart, didn't break down until it was time...