5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
"Strike, Destroy"
5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division's mission was to prepare for deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom to conduct full spectrum operations to defeat terrorists, insurgents, or paramilitary forces.
The 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division was activated on 4 May 2007 at Fort Lewis, Washington. At the time 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team was the Army's newest Stryker Brigade Combat Team and the seventh formed within the US Army up to that date.
