By Jung Sung-ki
Staff Reporter
A U.S. Stryker Platoon from Alaska will be deployed to South Korea Feb. 15, the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command said Wednesday.
The deployment of the Stryker vehicles is part of the upcoming Key Resolve command post exercise of South Korean and U.S. troops from March 2 to 7, it said in a news release.
Upon arrival, the vehicles will be off loaded from their carriers and positioned temporarily in a marshalling area in Daegu, it said.
The Stryker is a family of eight-wheel-drive armored combat vehicles used by the U.S. Army. Based on the Canadian LAVIII light-armored vehicle, which in turn is based on the Swiss Mowag Piranha, the Stryker is the U.S. Army's first new armored vehicle since the M2 Bradely in the 1980s.