Last Returning Flight of Soldiers

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - The last flight returning from Iraq for the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division is scheduled to arrive Sunday morning.

More than 100 Soldiers from the Stryker Brigade are expected to return to Fort Wainwright as the last of the redeployment flights and the return of the more than 4,000 Soldiers of the 1st Stryker Brigade, 25th Infantry Division.

There will be a brief ceremony held in the Administrative Holding Area at Fort Wainwright for each of the returning flights.

A few Soldiers will be responsible for escorting equipment from theater back to Fort Wainwright and are due to return in November.

The 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division deployed to the Northern Iraq province of Diyala in August 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The 1st flight full of Fort Wainwright-based Soldiers returning from their tour in Iraq arrived on August 24th and started a steady flow of flights bringing home the more than 4,000 Soldiers of the Brigade.

Soldiers with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, in conjunction with the Iraqi Security Forces, the Government of Iraq and the Diyala Provincial Reconstruction Team, conducted full-spectrum counter-insurgency operations in the Diyala province of Iraq in order to support the provincial government and facilitate stabilization and growth in the region.