Rumsfeld Couples Future Stryker Brigade with Comanche

By Anne Plummer / December 12, 2003 at 5:00 AM
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week approved an Army plan to equip its fifth Stryker Brigade Combat Team with the service's RAH-66 Comanche helicopter. The new plan details "enhancements" the Army will make to two of the six Stryker brigades it plans to build by 2010. The final two brigades -- known as the fifth and six SBCTs -- will show improved capability in the realm of aviation, fires, networking and sensors, according to an Army source familiar with the...

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