2006-12-04 08:26:41 · 11 answers · asked by jefferson 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
They're a ************ light Infantry Division that trains at Fort Drum in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. They are high altitude fighters who are the ideal troops to chase the Taliban in the mountains in Afghanistan. Every one of them is a hero.
2006-12-04 08:29:22 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The only special about the 10th is that they have a very distinguished lineage, Bob Dole served in the 10th in WWII.
If you look at a topographic map of the where the 10th is located and it is pretty much flat, nasty nowhere in upstate NY. Thats why it is so freaking windy there because there are no natural barriers to block or slow down the wind as it comes from Canada. Very few people in a functioning combat unit of a platoon or smaller with maybe the exception of some infantry units are Mountain Warfare qualified. Maybe two or four in most units, some maybe have one or two in others.
They have got that little scroll above their patch that saids Mountain on it, can we get a show of hands how many of them graduated from Mountain Warfare?
All the "legacy" army units have a very distinguished that is why they have not been deactivated.
2006-12-04 20:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
10th Mountain Division History
2016-10-03 00:48:29 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well until we asked the British to order their officers to keep quiet they upon the 10th arrival in the Middle East the second time were telling the press the 10 th was the worse trained soldiers they had ever seen. Supposedly a Mountain battalion had trained on flat land, did not know their equipment or how to interface with other units. I don't know if it were really true I know that many, many American and British senior officers took early retirement. What is odd is no one is still allowed to discuss the issue, what happened to free speech?
God Bless You and The Southern People
2006-12-04 18:33:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Go to http:// www. mil.com or do a Yahoo Search on the
US Army 10th Mountain Division and you will know that
is a elite and a tough unit.
2006-12-04 08:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
10 th mountain is just the name of the division for historical purposes They are just a light infantry division They are not a mountain division any longer They do no training different than any other light infantry division IE: they do no special mountain training at all
2016-03-13 03:22:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are the best light infantry unit in the army! I have deployed with the 10th and everytime we roll into a town or country and the locals see that 10th MTN patch they $hit themselves. We don't just train constantly for real world real life combat situations, we do it in -30 degree weather. Noone does haji hunting like we do!
2006-12-04 08:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by kamakazi11b 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
These guys are...top of the crop so to speak. Highly trained, very capable team and extremely good at their job. They go where only mountain goats can go and do the impossible on a daily basis which makes them in my mind...Mighty!
2006-12-04 08:31:21 · answer #8 · answered by Rich B 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They train for harsh conditions.
I see them out at Kirkwood (ski resort 20 miles south of Lake Tahoe) with the marines training on their tele skies...Lifes a Beach!
2006-12-05 06:28:35 · answer #9 · answered by TAHOE REALTOR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They like to climb mountains, but they arent as good as the 15th Mountain Division.
2006-12-04 08:34:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋