PORT HADLOCK — The first Army Stryker Brigade convoys to roll through Port Hadlock and Chimacum made their way off the Olympic Peninsula without a hitch Saturday.
A handful of residents were waiting as the first convoy moved through the intersection of Oak Bay and Chimacum roads in Port Hadlock just after 3 p.m. Saturday.
The convoy is the first of many bound for Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, as the West’s largest Army base receives two Striker Brigades.
Some children in the Port Hadlock Bank of America parking lot stood next to their mothers and waved at the passing convoy.
The soldiers waved back, a few energetic Stryker crews flashing “V” for victory hand signs and excitedly hollering out to people taking pictures or video of the convoy.
Fifteen vehicles made up the initial convoy, followed by another 15 each hour for the next three hours.
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