Fort Carson Colorado

Sgt. 1st Class James McKee couldn’t hold back the tears as he hugged his daughter and mussed his son’s hair.
Twelve-year-old Kade looked up at his dad with obvious admiration, ready to get back to the camping and fishing trips that he’s missed for a year while his dad fought in Iraq.
“It feels awesome,” the elder [...]

he 4th Infantry Division marked its long-awaited return to Fort Carson on Wednesday, bringing with it 6,500 soldiers due on post by Labor Day and a new leadership team to run the post.
The division moved from Fort Hood, Texas, where it had been stationed since 1995. Fort Carson has nearly doubled in population since 2003, [...]

Rows of green duffle bags were hoisted onto buses, malaria pills were accounted for, and about 300 soldiers cradling their guns were on their way to Afghanistan.
“It’s a little rough,” said Sgt. Joshua Danison. “But, at the same time, you understand it’s your job.”
The last large group from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry [...]

FORT HOOD, Texas • Scores of soldiers Tuesday crowded around tables piled with literature extolling the virtues of the Pikes Peak region at the start of a week long event to introduce them to their new home.
The 2,000 or so troops who will attend the Mountain Post Welcome are the first of 6,500 soldiers who [...]

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The announcement followed the Pentagon budget proposal Monday threatening to cut 3,500 soldiers planned for the post, and represents a far smaller blow. As the headquarters of the 4th Infantry Division moves to Fort Carson from Fort Hood, Texas, Division West of the First Army, with about 300 soldiers and civilians, [...]

Local living costs were 7.2 percent below the national average during 2008, the lowest level for any full year since 1990, according to a quarterly survey of 322 metropolitan areas by the Council for Community and Economic Research. Living costs in the Springs have declined compared with the national average every year since 2003. Living [...]

They battled for 15 months in Baghdad and Mosul, losing 15 soldiers in some of the fiercest fighting since the invasion of Iraq.
Tuesday afternoon, many in the ranks of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team had tears in their eyes as they greeted loved ones during a Fort Carson homecoming ceremony. The brigade is out of [...]

This is the year of the boom at Fort Carson, where thousands of soldiers are expected to relocate this summer.
The post’s population of troops will climb to 24,600 from 18,100 in 2008, and officials there will continue building at a furious pace to house the soldiers with $580 million in construction planned this year. The [...]

TOM ROEDER
THE GAZETTE
Another long wait is ending for thousands of families.
Two hundred soldiers from Fort Carson’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team came home to cheering crowds Wednesday morning, and they’ll be followed in coming weeks by 3,500 of their comrades who are wrapping up a grueling 15-month deployment in Iraq.
The soldiers marched into the gymnasium where [...]

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Fort Carson will get an Apache attack helicopter battalion, which is moving from its base in Korea in March to replace a scout helicopter unit leaving the Colorado Springs base for Fort Riley in Kansas.
The Army announced Monday that about 500 soldiers, their 150 dependents, and the 24 AH-64 Longbow helicopters of the 1st Battalion, [...]

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