by Christian Beckwith | Mar 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
COMING SOON: On June 22, 1944, the mountain troops were shipped from Camp Hale to Camp Swift, Texas. The 10th was too small, too specialized, too elite; they were to be converted to a flatland operation just like all the rest of the Army’s divisions. The entire...
by Christian Beckwith | Mar 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
COMING SOON: Blizzards, -30° temps, 90-pound packs, 14,000-foot peaks, and hazing from the brass: never in the history of the U. S. Army had a division undergone a training maneuver as rigorous as the March 1944 Divisional Series. “It’s not as bad as the ‘D’ Series,”...
by Christian Beckwith | Mar 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
View Post COMING SOON: In the summer of 1943, 32 army officers and enlisted men from Camp Hale arrived in Elkins, West Virginia, to set up and run the Army’s only low-altitude assault climbing school. This episode looks at the little-known history of Seneca Rocks,...
by Christian Beckwith | Mar 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
COMING SOON: This episode looks at one of the most painful chapters of the mountain troops’ history: the 87th Mountain Infantry’s deployment to Kiska Island in the Aleutians to take it from Japanese occupation.
by Christian Beckwith | Mar 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
On October 12, 2022, President Biden designated the 10th Mountain Division’s Camp Hale as a national monument. This episode examines how the troops used the high-altitude encampment for summer and winter maneuvers, how Hollywood fanned the flames of the Division’s...
