COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Culinary specialists with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Fight Staff, 4th Infantry Division, serve breakfast to neighborhood members on the Colorado Springs Western Road Breakfast June 18, 2025. Fort Carson Troopers began organising at midnight to have the ability to serve breakfast at 5:30 a.m. The road breakfast celebrates the beginning of rodeo season all through the Pikes Peak area.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Maj. Gen. David Doyle, proper, former commanding common, 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, accompanied by his spouse, Renee Doyle, welcomes the gang to the Western Heritage Road Breakfast, thanks the neighborhood for its help of Fort Carson, and introduces the gang to Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Ellis, incoming commanding common of the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, June 18, 2025.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Maj. Gen. David Doyle, left, former commanding common, 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, helps put together scrambled eggs with culinary specialists from the 4th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, 4th Inf. Div., on the Colorado Springs Western Road Breakfast June 18, 2025. Fort Carson Troopers began organising at midnight to have the ability to serve breakfast at 5:30 a.m. The road breakfast celebrates the beginning of rodeo season all through the Pikes Peak area.
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FORT CARSON, Colo. — Troopers from Fort Carson assist put together breakfast for 1000’s of neighborhood members on the annual Western Road Breakfast in downtown Colorado Springs, June 18, 2025.
Service members volunteered to prepare dinner and serve almost 1,100 kilos of pancake batter, 1,500 kilos of eggs, 10,000 sausage patties, 88 gallons of syrup, 500 gallons of espresso, 7,500 pints of milk and a pair of,500 pints of juice, based on the Western Road Breakfast committee.
Maj. Gen. David Doyle, former commanding common of the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, welcomed the gang to the road breakfast and launched Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Ellis and thanked them for his or her help of Fort Carson.
“Girls and gents, we admire your help of our Troopers and our mission at Fort Carson,” stated Doyle. “Right now I’m giving up command to a tremendous chief, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis, who would be the commanding common of the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson.”
Roughly 60 Troopers began organising for the occasion at midnight so they may start serving meals at 5:30 a.m.
For some Troopers it’s their first time on the avenue breakfast.
“That is my first time working on the avenue breakfast, however it’s a actually nice expertise,” stated Sgt. Ciera Conway, 2nd Stryker Brigade Fight Staff, 4th Inf. Div. “This can be a good technique to present the individuals of Colorado Springs we help the neighborhood.”
The downtown Colorado Springs roads have been blocked off and 1,100 bales of hay have been positioned for attendees to take a seat on whereas they ate breakfast and listened to stay music from Exit West, Flying W. Wranglers together with a efficiency by the Sweetwater Native American Hoop Dancers.
Kids participated within the Western dress-up contest, practiced roping expertise on hay bales and visited the kiddie coral the place they acquired free cowboy hats and bandanas.
Fort Carson has been supporting the road breakfast for 60 years.
“I’ve by no means seen a partnership or a dedication between a metropolis and the native navy like Colorado Springs,” stated Col. Erik Oksenvaag, Fort Carson garrison commander.
The Western Road Breakfast kicks off the beginning of rodeo season all through the Pikes Peak area.
Over 200 members of the Pikes Peak Vary Riders left the breakfast web site on horseback for his or her annual four-day trip round Pikes Peak. It’s the 77th 12 months the Pikes Peak Vary Riders have made this trip to advertise the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo.
The rodeo runs July 8-12 on the Norris-Penrose Occasion Heart, with July 9 devoted to honoring Fort Carson.
