4th Stryker brigade returns to cheers at Lewis McChord

End of an era as combat troops return to Lewis-McChord
By KOMO Staff and Associated Press


JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - A group of soldiers representing the last U.S. combat unit in Iraq has returned home to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, marking the end of an era.

About 150 soldiers from the Army's 4th Stryker brigade marched into Soldiers Field House on Thursday morning.

The brigade's 2nd Infantry Division was officially designated the last combat brigade to leave Iraq under Obama's plan to end combat operations in Iraq.

Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the troops were leaving well ahead of President Barack Obama's Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there.
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