 Many of these announcements were made even before the time and location of these shipments had been announced.Port Militarization Resistance organizers expected the shipments to return through the Port of Olympia.Beginning 2 March 2007, Stryker vehicles and other equipment from the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, based out of Fort Lewis, was convoyed onto the grounds of the Port of Tacoma, to be loaded onto the Iraq-bound USNS "Soderman".