Will rotating Strykers units one day be the future ground component for USFK?:

The Alaska-based Stryker troops are in South Korea for Key Resolve/Foal Eagle, the new name for a training exercise started in the mid-1990s involving branches of the U.S. and South Korean militaries.

As South Korean range employees manipulated the pop-up targets, soldiers in the tower communicated with those safely encased in the Strykers’ protective shells, where gunners operated their .50-caliber weapons via a Remote Weapons Station joystick and thermal imaging system.

Even though Saturday’s training was a just warm-up for the March 2-7 exercise, Sgt. Andrew Brady, a team leader with 2nd Squad, 4th Platoon, explained that every minute of training is important, because the soldiers are headed to Iraq later this year.  [Stars & Stripes]

For those that have never worked with Strykers before these are excellent combat vehicles that are much easier to deploy compared to Bradleys and tanks.