Getting your player ready...
More than 1,200 vehicles will roll south from Fort Carson this week in what’s again the biggest convoy operation since World War II.
It’s a bigger version of the convoys sent to the Piñon Canyon training area in 2015 and part of a massive 5,000-soldier 1st Brigade Combat Team training exercise that’s designed to get the unit ready to fight a mock war in the California desert.
Preparations for the 143-mile trek have taken nearly a year, and the unit’s mechanics have been hopping to make sure all of its trucks and eight-wheeled, 18-ton Stryker vehicles are ready for the long haul.
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