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The Iraqis christened the Soldiers
of the Arrowhead Brigade with a second name: “the Ghosts.”
The 3d Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division earned
this new Iraqi nickname during their first deployment to Operation
Iraqi Freedom, because their fast and quiet Stryker Vehicles
enabled the Brigade to conduct full-spectrum operations virtually
undetected until the Soldiers were on their objectives. The quick,
efficient and stealthy operations carried out by the Arrowhead
Brigade in its first few months in Iraq led the locals to believe
the U.S. Army’s first Stryker Brigade Combat Team were like
ghosts that came and went suddenly, and quietly, in the night.
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