striker brigade arriving at fort base south of seattle this morning. for most of them, it s the end of their second deployment in iraq. but this homecoming obviously extra special and not just for the new dads meeting their babies for the first time. been waiting very long time to get back to these guys. it was very exciting for him to see him. he didn t believe that was true. that that was his dad. it doesn t get any better than that nothing matches better than having your love come back and be safe and sound. they made it back. and they did a good job. and we finished it out there. and it s great. i think we set the iraqis up for success. they are ready for us to go. they re ready to take over. shepard: even though the last combat brigade has left iraq the pentagon reports there are still tens of thousands of troops there some of them will be pulling out by the end of the month. or dominick streaming live from kuwait where he crossed the border with a convoy of u.s. troops.
the invasion. came here during the surge. now it s nice to see things are going, you know, good with iraq. armed against urban insurgency with the intimidating stryker armored vehicles, the brigade made the mark in the surge of 2007. full strike, 15 punishing months through the worst of the violence in northern province. 37 of the colleagues were killed. hundreds more were seriously wounded. i mean, it was they were going to get blown up, we were going to get shot at. it s not like now where it isn t going to happen. it s will it not happen today? reporter: with a litany of last-minute return and the this accelerated forward, it s too good to be true for some. my daughter, my sisters, my mom. so great, they are going to be waiting for me and everything. reporter: fourth stryker
the second infantry division driving their striker vehicles which are kind of lightly armored, almost tank looking vehicles that they are famous for. that s why they call them the striker brigade and they started driving the 360 miles from baghdad to the kuwaiti border. we ve seen them crossing over the border within the last few minutes and really, it is the end of an era in iraq. there will be 50,000 troops staying behind. president obama promised that we would get down to 50,000 by the end of the month. there has been more violence in recent days. there may be more casualties to come even though the end of combat operations is technically just about over, several days ahead of schedule. so 50,000 there. predominantly a civilian mission from this point forward. those 50,000 will work on training iraqi troops. they will do some counterterrorism missions but ultimately, it will be more of a civilian led operation for the u.s. in standing up the iraqis
ask your doctor about boniva today. (announcer) to get one month free, plus more tips and recipes, visit boniva.com or call 1-800-4-boniva. bret: world news now. series of attacks killed five iraqi government employees today. the violence comes two weeks before the formal end of the u.s. combat role in that country. reporter dominic dinatali is embedded with the last unit out. this isn t the first time soldiers of full striker brigade have had to clear out of iraq. some are repeatedly done it start to finish. although, this account, different. to close out in a book,
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