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Article: 10th Mountain Division--alive and well. (Questions & Answers).
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Members of the 10th Mountain Division now actively serving on the border of Afghanistan are hardly "disbanded" as your story in the January 2002 issue asserts. The division, now headquartered at Fort Drum, New York, fought most recently in Somalia and its members are overseas now, poised to use their remarkable skills in hunting down terrorists and their supporters.
Kevin Shelly
Via e-mail
Kevin:
The 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) was officially resurrected on February 13, 1985 at Fort Drum, New York--the first Army division of any kind formed since 1975. But the "new" 10th was wholly reorganized and restructured to meet a wider range ...