my2002lightning
10-22-2005, 09:29 PM
A very awe-inspiring story. :bowsElaine bought the Band of Brothers 6 dvd boxset for me and it's an excellent movie for anyone remotely a student of our military and it's history.:)
The entire story, here: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,78662,00.html?ESRC=dod.nl
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - The 101st Airborne Division on Thursday reactivated a historic unit whose actions during World War II were the subject of the book "Band of Brothers."
The 506th Regimental Combat Team - also known as the "Currahees," a Cherokee Indian word meaning "stands alone" - returned to the division just as its soldiers were completing final preparations to return to Iraq (http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=GH_Iraq).
"Our Currahees have trained hard and are ready to join their brothers," Col. Thomas Vail, said as the unit's 3,500 soldiers stood behind him. "They are ready to sacrifice their personal comfort and safety to answer a call to duty."
The reactivation is part of the 101st Airborne Division's recent expansion from three to four brigade combat teams under a Pentagon plan to reorganize the Army (http://www.military.com/Community/Home/0,14700,ARMY,00.html) into smaller, easily deployable units.
FYI, www.military.com has a ton of crazy vid.s from Iraq and Afghanistan. You have to register, though. Just crank in an email and whether your in the military and away-you-go.
Their vid. url: http://img.military.com/Shock/videos.do;jsessionid=70E3B198FC6A6FC65BF03EF484BA8 338?page=1
Ronald
The entire story, here: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,78662,00.html?ESRC=dod.nl
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - The 101st Airborne Division on Thursday reactivated a historic unit whose actions during World War II were the subject of the book "Band of Brothers."
The 506th Regimental Combat Team - also known as the "Currahees," a Cherokee Indian word meaning "stands alone" - returned to the division just as its soldiers were completing final preparations to return to Iraq (http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=GH_Iraq).
"Our Currahees have trained hard and are ready to join their brothers," Col. Thomas Vail, said as the unit's 3,500 soldiers stood behind him. "They are ready to sacrifice their personal comfort and safety to answer a call to duty."
The reactivation is part of the 101st Airborne Division's recent expansion from three to four brigade combat teams under a Pentagon plan to reorganize the Army (http://www.military.com/Community/Home/0,14700,ARMY,00.html) into smaller, easily deployable units.
FYI, www.military.com has a ton of crazy vid.s from Iraq and Afghanistan. You have to register, though. Just crank in an email and whether your in the military and away-you-go.
Their vid. url: http://img.military.com/Shock/videos.do;jsessionid=70E3B198FC6A6FC65BF03EF484BA8 338?page=1
Ronald