Transcript: BIDEN OFFERS CONDOLENCES FOR SLAIN STRYKER SQUADRON

INDSTRY GROUP 91
Regulatory Intelligence Data
11-10-2009
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2009 - Vice President Joe Biden delivered condolences
today at a memorial ceremony honoring seven soldiers killed in an attack
in southern Afghanistan last month. The soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division's
1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team,
were in a Stryker vehicle struck by a 1,000-pound roadside bomb in northwest
Kandahar province Oct. 27. "On behalf of the president of the United States,
I am here to express my condolences to all those we honor today," Biden
said at a ceremony on Fort Lewis, Washington, the squadron's home base.
Biden said the undaunted courage and purpose ...

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