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Daniel Driscoll: “We created this division from scratch, 10th Mountain…”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll announces partnership with U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team

Published | Video Starts at 00:57

So In World War II, what we knew is we needed to go out to private industry and get the top experts that our nation had for arctic warfare. And where that turned out to be was alpinists and ski. And so We created this division from scratch, 10th Mountain Division, set it up at Camp Hale in Colorado. had them train for a couple of years, and then when we actually needed them as an army, they turned out to be one of the turning points in World War II. (00:57–01:03)

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