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6 unusual facts about Stryker


Anti-tank grenade

However, in the recent Iraq War, the RKG-3 anti-tank hand grenade has made a reappearance with Iraqi insurgents who used them primarily against U.S. Humvees, Strykers and MRAPs, which lack the heavier armor of tanks.

RKG-3 anti-tank grenade

The attacks have mainly been on the U.S. Army Stryker vehicle and the MRAP (armored vehicle) but not limited to attacks against ASV (Armored Security Vehicles) and M1151 UP Armored HMMWV.

Santa Susana High School

KROQ outfitted the event with beach decor, snacks, Stryker as DJ, and a 2-hour long set by Blink-182.

Stryker

The 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fairbanks, Alaska's Fort Wainwright began its initial deployment in August 2005 to Summer 2006.

The vehicle is named for two American servicemen who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II and Specialist Four Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.

Ty Carter

In October 2010, Carter was assigned as a Stryker gunner with the 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.


Codename: Strykeforce

Stryker next accepts a mission from Joshua Thornewood to find a Fountain of Youth hidden in the Himalayas and protected by a Yeti.

Danny Chen

Pvt. Chen served with C Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, which is based in Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

Detroit JazzStage

The packed audience included Linda Yohn (program director at WEMU-FM), Mark Stryker (The Detroit Free Press music critic) and many of Detroit's top jazz musicians.

Doctor Destiny

In the Justice League episode "Only a Dream", John Dee (voiced by William Atherton) was a low-level LexCorp employee and small-time crook who was incarcerated in Stryker's Prison for guarding a supply of smuggled weapons.

Harold Corsini

In 1950, he accompanied Stryker to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and assisted him as head of the photographic department at the Pittsburgh Photographic Library.

M-497 Black Beetle

The construct was then successfully sent on test runs over the existing tracks between Butler, Indiana and Stryker, Ohio (the line was chosen for its arrow-straight layout and good condition, but otherwise unmodified track).

Midnight Sun Run

In 2006, some fifty United States Army soldiers, members of the 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery with the 172 Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fort Wainwright, would not let their deployment in the Iraq War prevent them from participating in the Midnight Sun Run.

Port of Tacoma protests, March 2007

Beginning 2 March 2007, Stryker vehicles and other equipment from the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, based out of Fort Lewis, was convoyed onto the grounds of the Port of Tacoma, to be loaded onto the Iraq-bound USNS Soderman.

Roy Stryker

From 1950 to 1952, Stryker worked to establish the Pittsburgh Photographic Library (PPL).

After leaving the PPL, Stryker directed a documentation project at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.

Steven W. Plattner

He continued his studies on the Standard Oil project, and contributed two photo-essays to the Wharton Annual in 1984 (concerning the Standard Oil photographs) and 1985 (on a later Stryker-led project for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation).

In 1983 Plattner went on to study Stryker's Pittsburgh Photographic Library project, which followed the Standard Oil project from 1950-1953.

The Last Centurion

He commands a Stryker company that is left behind in Iran to guard a U.S. military equipment depot after a worldwide outbreak of mutated bird flu.

Tim Stryker

Later in Galacticomm's development, Stryker hired Scott Brinker, originally of Moonshae Isles BBS, who created many of the early games available for MajorBBS, including the original game Kyrandia.

Tomys Swartwout

Tomys Swartwout, Jan Snedeker and Jan Stryker solicited from Stuyvesant the right to settle together on the level reach of wild land (de vlacke bosch) or the Flat bush, adjacent to the outlying farms at Breukelen and Amersfoort.


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