M1126 Stryker ICV with SPARK I roller
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The model depicts a 1st brigade, 25th Infantry Division Stryker Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) equipped with a SPARKS I mine rollers. Time frame is about 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
In September 2008 the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team began a twelve-month tour of duty in Iraq. The 1st SBCT, stationed in Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad, served in the Multi National Division-North's Task Force Lightning. The brigade successfully conducted combat operations in partnership with Iraqi security forces against insurgent elements as well as implementing numerous civil action projects aimed at improving the quality of life within the province. The 1st SBCT earned participation credit for the Iraqi Surge and Iraqi Sovereignty campaigns and returned to Fort Wainwright in September 2009.
Later versions of the SPARKS rollers added a third set of wheels centrally mounted forward of the paired sets, and were used in multiple vehicles in OIF and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanista
