TACOMA, Wash. — Drenching rains fell as Army leaders officially activated their newest Stryker brigade on June 1, 2006, when the local installation was still called Fort Lewis. The introduction of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division occurred as the Army was building up its forces for President George W. Bush’s Iraq “surge.” The unit had held the legacy of the longest, continuously serving cavalry regiment in the Army. But on that day seven years ago, it would deploy for the first of three combat tours as an infantry brigade...
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