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Nearly 650 vehicles will roll south from Colorado Springs next week in the biggest Army convoy seen in the Pikes Peak region in decades.

By some accounts, it’s the largest road convoy in Colorado since World War II. It will take more than 4,000 soldiers and more than 300 Stryker armored vehicles and other rigs from Fort Carson’s 1st Brigade Combat Team to its Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site east of Trinidad for combat training.

Hundreds of Fort Carson vehicles will hit the road starting May 26 in a massive convoy for a training exercise at Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site.

The rigs will be on southern Colorado roads through May 30. Exact routes haven’t been released.

But the road trip, which runs May 26-30, has its own reward.

“The move to Piñon Canyon is itself a training event,” said Col. David Hodne, the brigade’s commander.

via Something unusual – even for Colorado Springs – about to happen with Fort Carson.

#JadeHelm15 conspiracy theorists are going nuts, of course.

As the article notes, folks around Tacoma are pretty used to seeing convoys similar to this heading between Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Yakima Firing Center.

And as COL Hodne notes, simply moving the unit is a training event.

I recently read a paper on one of the first BCTs to restructure from a traditional heavy brigade, to both the BCT model, and the Stryker combat vehicles, through their first deployment in Iraq. One of their great strengths in theater was that the unit could rapidly shift hundreds of miles to a new base of operations, with a relatively small logistical effort, compared to that needed for a heavy unit.