page_title: Stryker
section_title: Mission
hierarchical_section_title: Stryker / Design / Mission
caption_attribution_description: English: Caption: "US Army's 1-23 Infantry "Alpha Company" Stryker team members deploy from a Stryker Vehicle to provide suppressive fire on the enemy during a simulated convoy attack during a Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and Integration/Foal Eagle exercise (RSO&amp;I/Foal Eagle). RSO&amp;I is a complex multi-phase exercise conducted annually, tailored to train, test, and demonstrate United States and Republic of Korea (ROK) Force projection and deployment capabilities which was recently completed." Original Text from source: Daegu, Republic of Korea (Mar. 20, 2005) – U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to 123 Infantry, Alpha Company, Stryker Unit, deploy out of the back of a Stryker infantry carrier vehicle to provide suppressive fire on the enemy during a simulated convoy attack during Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and Integration/Foal Eagle exercises (RSO&amp;I/Foal Eagle). RSO&amp;I is a complex multi-phase exercise conducted annually, tailored to train, test, and demonstrate United States and Republic of Korea force projection and deployment capabilities. Foal Eagle exercise runs simultaneously and trains in all aspects of Combined Forces Command's mission.
context_page_description: The ICV Stryker is a family of eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles derived from the Canadian LAV III. Stryker vehicles are produced by General Dynamics Land Systems for the United States Army. It has 4-wheel drive and can be switched to all-wheel drive.
  The vehicle is named for two unrelated U.S. soldiers who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II, and Specialist Four Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.
context_section_description: The Stryker family of vehicles fills a role in the United States Army that is neither heavy nor light, but rather an attempt to create a force that can move infantry to the battlefield quickly and in relative security. Brigades that have been converted to the Stryker have primarily been light, or, in the case of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, unarmored Humvee-based cavalry scouts. For these units, the addition of Strykers has increased combat power by providing armor protection, a vehicle-borne weapon system to support each dismounted squad, and the speed and range to conduct missions far from the operating base.
  Stryker units seem to be especially effective in urban areas, where vehicles can establish initial security positions near a building and dismount squads on a doorstep.
  The Stryker relies on its speed and communications for the majority of its defense against heavy weapon systems. Most Stryker variants are not designed to engage heavily armored units, relying on communication and other units to control threats outside of its classification. One variant is armed with anti-tank missiles.
  Brigades equipped with the Stryker are intended to be strategically mobile, i.e., capable of being rapidly deployed over long distances. As such, the Stryker was intentionally designed with a lower level of protection compared to tracked vehicles like the M2 Bradley, but with much lower logistic requirements.
  Although the Stryker was designed to be rapidly deployable and not heavily armored, a training exercise in January 2014 demonstrated that in some circumstances, a Stryker brigade with vehicles and infantry using anti-tank missiles could successfully engage a conventional enemy force of tanks, armored vehicles, and helicopters.
caption: Members of the 1-23rd Infantry Regiment deploying from the rear ramp. These soldiers are assigned to the Second Infantry Division and are wearing ERDL Battle Dress Uniforms. Note the SAW Gunner providing rear security via the vehicles’ top opening “troop door”.
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