Why Is the Army Reactivating the 11th? 

It gets cold in Ukraine though...

That’s the Army way!

@@Seedy446 Like sending 7th SF Group to Afghanistan. I'm sure there must be SOMEONE there who speaks Spanish, right?

@@jeffreygunn3530 Exactly! Remember that Ranger school used to have a desert phase. We won’t need desert training for anything. Let’s cut that out of the curriculum.

@@Seedy446 what? The next war we’re in will most likely be the same way , desert and mountain terrain

This has been a change long in the making. The US Army released its Arctic Strategy last year that included this change, well before they applied to NATO. But it’s good timing nonetheless

@@NA-gf1zy exactly what I was going to say. We have training exercises all over in Norway , Estonia , Lithuania etc Royal Marines control that region not the Americans

@@NA-gf1zy Oh alright, didn't know that. Although I didn't mean to imply that US is solely responsible for "protection" of the nordics, what I assumed is that US is preparing for Finns and Swedes joining Nato, since there's been a number of joint exercises in the nordic regions already, and if I'm not mistaken, Finland and Sweden has good relations to the US and consider each other allies.

@@EdwardXD11 When shit hits, the US will still be relied on to pull more of the heavy weight. So yes they are most likely preparing for any eventuality in a cold environment. Is it coincidence they are doing it now that Russia is being a brut bully, forcing the hands of Finland and Sweden to join NATO? Maybe. Peace through strength!

@@gbedumallam I agree with you. Perhaps they were planning it for a long while, but were now incentivised due to the Russia - Ukraine conflict

Your dad was a hero. Los Banos is a legendary jump

🇺🇸❤

My father, 93, made both combat jumps in Korea with the 187th RCT, 11th Airborne Division.

Brave Fine Men

@garyschwab8802 I’m not in the military, but after I graduate I plan on joining the army airborne like my great grandfather did in WWII. He served in the 2-509 in N Africa the 505th in Sicily, and the 101st in Normandy, Holland, Bastogne, Hagenau, and Western Germany. know I’d be proud to see my old division reactivated again.

Same as the marine’s tank units brain dead bean counters cutting costs so the senate can have new car’s at the cost of Americas finest deaths because of lack of equipment

@KNO BODY that’s what I’m saying

@KNO BODY the 11th will be jumping. It's the 101st that arent real paratroopers.

As a navy seabee veteren you are absolutely right my so is also a seabee veteren and it is the same now that's why my two youngest chose to be active duty marines also more chance for advancement go navy marines

My dad was airborne in Nam and he actually loved the military just didn't like circumstances RIP DAD🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Exactly what I was going to type. Boy, you can tell this country and military is in deep doo-doo when the basis for altering army structure and converting non-ABN people into ABN basically a benign psy-ops plan to hold down suicides and help establish identity. I had to read it twice when I read that.

WOW, thats a good Twilight Zone episode.

Yup, a Twilight zone episode of a WW2 soldier of the 11th fast-forwarding to 2022 would be neat.

“Picture a man, going on a journey - 🎶mission top secret, destination unknown!” 🎶😂

Makes sense.

@@TheGhostrider9667“doesn’t even know if he’ll be going home 🏠 👽🦿

That is Big Army for you. It makes me almost almost want to pound my head against the door or their heads for that matter.

Also, Putin threatened to take back Alaska from the US. They are dead serious about it too.

@@davisluong2060 we really should just make the battalions have the insertion methods not the division. I would imagine it's much simpler to stand up a new Airborne, AA, or mech battalion than it would entire divisions and brigades.

It takes a lot for of money to keep a arctic unit in Alaska. During the Cold War it makes sense, during GWOT not so much. Now with tensions in Ukraine it makes sense again.

Who cares.

My 68w airborne is part of this now. She's an amazing soldier. The training is intense. Cold weather warfare isn't for the weak.

The Herd!!! Now correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that mean you were stationed in Italy? It's to my understanding that's where they're at.

Hooah. 2nd 504 here

@Jason Walter 1 in Iraq for the 173rd. 1 in Afghanistan for the 75th. That’s from what I understand.

@@shanewuzizname2434 Strike Hold

Whats so special about it?

Did that. I didnt have and fun at all. It sucked. Every bit of it!

Lol that's where I'm stationed at right now. Good ol -60 Wainwright

By new techniques they mean copying from Canada & the Nordic Countries

@@coreyconlon3589 Just showed up myself

I knew your dad. He was not very intelligent and a terrible soldier.

@@baatinunseen5732 That means your dead…..good.

God bless your Dad!

@@baatinunseen5732 what a weak and cowardly thing to say.

@@baatinunseen5732 Who even are you?

So did my father!

My dad's first cousin was in retaking Corregidor in Manila Bay in early '45 with the 11th ABN. Battle of Monkey's Point. I was close to him from '83 until his passing in '22 at 97 2/3. He had a book put together for his regiment at some point and he could tell me who made it and who didn't. A big boulder from a mammoth blast landed right on his lower back and he got a small check from the govt the rest of his life.

Well said.

Two brigades. One Airborne, the other will loose the Strykers to become Air Assault. It’s just a rebranding. No increase in higher HQ

1st Cav Div at Ft Hood has the exact opposite reputation !! Lots of bullshit and getting the job done in weird ways. LOL. I was prior service navy before joining the army and was amazed at the things going on in the army and weak leadership there. When I was in the army 1st Cav Div was a HOT mess !!! Wasn't really surprised when those 2 soldiers went missing,then turned up dead. RIP-to those soldiers and condolences to their families. Then they had those 8 deaths on a training mission,but,I blame their ncos for that incident. Lots of strange things happened on Ft Hood while I was there,have mucho stories to tell.

@@powerbad696 Fort Hood is the place where careers die (literally) for a reason. Feel sorry for those that get assigned to it for their first duty station.

@@rh906 Me too.I thank god I didn't have to go to war with those ###holes in my unit ( HHC-2/8 Cav ) I wouldn't know who to SHOOT first,them or the ENEMY !!!! LOL.

6th Infantry Division (Light) was the US Army's Arctic force during the cold war. It was disbanded in the 1990's. I remember ops in freezing temperatures. Ops halted at 50 below zero.

@@manuellabor2759 1/501 PIR 91-95

We needed a unit like this yesterday. There are certain environments in Afghanistan where an elite Airborne division with cold weather training could've really helped. I agree that the Artic is increasingly important on the Grand Strategic level (as you noted, the melting ice caps are a huge part of that). However, I think the Pacific is a greater challenge because we have a more capable rival and a smaller number of capable allies in the region. (I would not have said that first part prior to the invasion of the Ukraine. In the decade that just ended, Russia certainly caused us more problems than China probably could've. However, Putin's Russia has shown considerable weakness both economically and militarily as of late).

@@jeffbenton6183 I don’t think It’s wise to make any assumptions of Russia. Even with our weaponry, Russia hasn’t had any issues really. A few hiccups maybe. But they are achieving their goals with little resistance in the grand scheme. And Putin is an extremely intelligent tactician. When he says to them it’s a special operation, I’m inclined to believe it. He’s stone cold evil, but u have to give a rival the respect necessary to contest him. If this is only 20-50% of their real force, and we assume this is the total package, we essentially underestimate a capable opponent Tsun tsu -when u are strong, appear weak When weak, appear stron Who looks weak, and who projects strength. If I was at the pentagon, I’d be doing some secret military improvements, and fast.

@@d540vamartin9 is this cope or are you just misinformed? Russia has lost most of its modern tanks, its Ratnik modernization program hasn't upgraded any significant numbers of unit and its advanced production capabilities are shut down from sanctions. Putin is no master tactician, he's a decrepit old fool looking for glory and fighting enemies from a past age.

The Pacific has been a domain of the Navy and Marines. The Artic is new because there is and will continue to be increased shipping and traffic through the once frozen North. With that in mind, all of the Artic bordering nations and rushing to make sure they that have the ability to dominate that space. It requires its own set of tactics and equipment. That is the purpose of reactivating the 11th.

Bingo

you serve in Vietnam?

@@hemanths2230 Yes

@@jodan4 welcome home sir.

The 11th was reactivated as the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) at Fortress Benning in 1963 to experiment with the concept. Obviously it worked. The 11th was fleshed out to a full division by merging it with the 2nd Infantry Division and the 10th Air Transport Brigade, both also at Benning, reflagged as the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and 27 days later was on its way to Vietnam. After Vietnam, the Army had room for one Air Assault Division, so the 101st Airborne, which had been reorganized as an airmobile division in Vietnam was retained. The 1st Cav, reverted back to its original branch Cavalry (now merged with Armor) and although designated a cavalry division, was the Army's fourth armored division at Ft Hood.

Manly stuff!

Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base regularly witness -40 F during the winter months (ACTUAL TEMPERATURE)! with the occasional WIND CHILL it can reach -80 F !

I swear 💀

I remember coming down yadkin gate dreading PT

@@TTVDirtyperkthirty just imagine doing PT in -25 F temperatures at 0600 in the middle of winter and it is still dark outside. typically november-december-january-february there is less than 4 hours of daylight in the winter months of interior Alaska.

Iraq is MUCH hotter,Joker !!! My first deployment,I was at Camp TQ,it got to 140 degrees,then when the temperature dropped down to a COOL 90 degress,I was shivering. LOL.I deployed with the Texas National Guard 4 time to Iraq,I volunteered for all 4 tours-GET-SOME !!! My first tour was with an infantry unit,we did raids,route clearance,ecps and convoy escort. One day while doing ecps,some special forces guys came thru with a large Iraqee national guard unit. Before their final exit one of their guys yells-I heard about you infantry guys,keep up the good work !!! Now,I didn't know if he was bullshitting us or not,but,our chests were really PUFFED-OUT !!! LOL. We were already cocky and sure of our-selves,but,this really made our HEADS big !! Yeah,special forces complimented US !!! Words spoken well in due time,can make a difference. That compliment made us go HARDER at the enemy. TQ was a marine fob,so,we did joint ops with them,the marines were TOUGH and BRAVE !!! It was an HONOR to serve with them. I also did back-to-back deployments. GO-GUARD !!! LOL.

I was PFAR at Fort Richardson did they just absorb the fourth brigade into this new 11th?

@@Baltimoreborn yes, 4-25 is 2-11 now

Served in 1/501 in early 90s. Step father served there when on company size 1/72nd. How many names does it need? They were all Arctic paratroopers. Now you can’t even find past souvenirs and no one can track this mess. Bunch of idiots at S1 or headquarters that wanted to be the first commander.

@@shade38211 AH YES! I remember it quite well. Charlie Airborne when it was part of the 172nd Brigade BEFORE the 6th Division was STILLBORN. too light to fight too heavy to move. then the cold war ended, no training money , no budget , no moral , and the no DIVISION. old timers said it was the best posting in the Army when it was a Brigade and then it became a Brigade again with no money, no training, no readiness and no morale. FUN TIMES!

@@jephrokimbo9050 Step father has loads of pics from his time when single company. Was also in C company but 1/501 went Apache,Blackfoot ,Comanche and so on. Funny he went off few weeks ago about changing Bragg.

Makes great sense, both the Air assault 101, and the new Airborne 11 division is needed, chaging the 101st would just deprive the capability of it.

Oh wow, I didn't even think about that. Not to mention airborne units do sling loads and air assault missions all the time. They don't repel, but that's rarely needed. Simply landing and hopping out is 99% of real world air assault missions.

No because that would stretch forces out too much. It would make more logical sense to make its own entity so they can focus more on what they set it out to do. This didn't cost the tax payers shit to do either. All they did was rebrand some BCTs.

And infinite retardation that's why they chose the most expensive time ever to choose a new rifle and phase out the M4 series all during the most inflation record breaking era of our lives

Problem is dedicated deep winter/arctic ops are a specific skillset on their own. Throw in airborne ops and you end up with an interesting/specific skillset that takes alot of time to teach well.

The army has the 10th Mountain Division. Another cold-weather division I suspect the army is looking to whom we may be in conflict with in the future.

Not you was airborne you still are airborne

@@tomlubas1512 Roger that! All the way

40 below isn’t bad - until you have to poop. Not pleasant 😂😈

Pulling that Yukon sled. Fuck! I was at Ft Wainwright.

​@@manuellabor2759 Ha!!! Be there and done that... I'm good!! Yeah, Ft. Wainwright is rough duty. Were you there when that Canadian C-130 crashed in 1989 for the yearly Brim frost exercise? I and two others heard it as we were walking to the mess hall, but we thought it was a shed collapsing.

Glad I stayed at Bragg!

Put hair on your chest and rip the moustache off your face...or at least half of it...first Company run in sub-zero weather and being one of the cheechakos in the unit, no one told us to wait until you got inside the barracks, thawed out for a few minutes BEFORE taking your balaclava off your head...so once inside the door, I grab it from under my chin and proceed to pull up over my head...didn't realized half the moustache was gone until I went into the latrine to shit, shower and shave...looked in the mirror and went WTF!?...

Hahah I saw it dayummm. He gonna get one shot then the loudest sound in the world. CLICK!!!!!!

Your uncle could've also been in the 503d, which was an independent parachute regiment, they dropped on Corrigedor, and elsewhere in the Pacific.

My cousin graduated from West Point around 1990 and went into the Engineers. After the Gulf War they furloughed him too! A WP grad!

HoAh!

Fuzzy Dunlop- Yeah, the 503rd also jumped near a Japanese held airfield near Lae, New Guinea. Some Aussie gun crews jumped with them, along with cut down versions of their 25 pounder artillery pieces. The interesting part of it is that the Aussies had absolutely no jump experience, so the boys from the 503rd had to give them a major crash course. The airfield was successfully captured.

"My recruiter said I could switch my MOS later" 😄

😂😂😂😂😂

You should be smoked for saying that

Lol same. Ares company, Duce 4. We were in the airfield.

I got to skip that by going to gate guard class 🤣

Angels of Woke, specifically trained daily how to use EO, SHARP, and given the new LGBT class to ensure they're highly tolerant and accepting.

@@TheGamersfolly it's happening in armies the world over mate, what can you do?🤷‍♂️ Hopefully tying these soldiers to a proud heritage will make that pill easier to swallow. When the next war kicks off we'll get our armies back on track. Hard times make hard men, Hard men make easy times, Easy times make soft men, Soft men make hard times, Hard times make hard men... And so it goes. We're just in the wrong part of the cycle.

@@johnsteele2986 I think we're rapidly approaching the 'hard times' phase, if we're not already there.

@@notcrazy6288 I think so to mate. I just hope we can rise to the occasion.

Honestly same

Come to fort wainwright it’s nice up here in Alaska

It was probably a budget thing I assume. Leave it to Uncle Sam to deactivate things when they aren’t immediately needed, like the sniper schools after WW1 and tank development too.

It’s been replaced by correctness.

@@whereswaldo5740 accidentally pro government it seems

Why not ask Bill Clinton? Just a part of his peace dividend.

As an old Airborne/Artillery guy, that’s very interesting. But Platoons from Piper cubs? A cub is doing well to take off with the pilot and one passenger, not wearing 68 lbs. of parachute and 100 lbs. of equipment. I don’t see a combat equipped paratrooper even fitting in the front seat. I’m not trying to be a smart-ass, is there a reference, or some place I can read about this? ‘Cause if they did that shit, it was epic. 👍🏼

@@TheGhostrider9667 more than likely they were using DC-3s of that time frame which were small but could operate in that type of environment but would more than likely need a secured airfield close by for such operations unless loaded down with fuel.

@@jephrokimbo9050 A DC-3 is a C-47. The standard plane for airborne operations at the time. A good sized, twin engine aircraft. Nothing like a Piper Cub.

@@TheGhostrider9667 yes, i am quite aware of the difference between the two aircraft. a great uncle served at the tail end of world war two as a DRAFTEE and then VOLUNTEERED for the Airborne thinking he would miss out of the action. spent time in the "occuptation" force in Japan and then came back home to Florida.

@@jephrokimbo9050 Very cool. But my question was about platoons in Piper Cubs.

Sounds great, until you run into a cav troop.

@@SGobuck Yeah Cav Troop shows up in Armored Vehicles dismounted infantry take them out with sling blade missiles, etc. etc. That is why, they are bringing the Airborne in, heavy forces will remain, but light is a real money maker pound per pound.

Excellent analysis!

​@@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 not really, unless those drones have AGIs stuffed into them, as any _semi-competent_ opponent could (and would) shut them down right quick due to their extreme limitations. Hell, we've seen a _satlinked_ drone get downed by a bunch of insurgents with off the shelf electronic equipment and some pointers from _Iran_ of all nations. In a high-ECM environment? Three words for you: _Friendly Fire A-Paluza_ ...

The entire division should be moved out of a swamp and into a place with mountains. Or they should just lose the tab and let Vermont be the only mountain unit.

Of course ! Why ask the opinion of the people who actually did the very thing we're talking about? Spoken like a true liberal with no experience in anything . Pull your head out kid! How's that for getting to the point?

My father was an 11th AB 1st Sgt 187RGT in Korea. Made every jump and was on Old Baldy and PorkChop Hill. Damn proud of my dad, RIP.

@@davidfrazer2836 My mistake for omitting the Korea accolades. Cheers to your Father. Rakkasan: falling umbrella.

This stuff is simply a byproduct of decreasing/increasing numbers in the army. People make a big deal out of it but the army doing this is the same as an accordion. My son is in the Marine Corps and they're doing the same type of stuff, why? Because they're a shrinking force. So they're re-aligning personnel into different units and deactivating other units.

11th Airborne went to the south Pacific. They stayed in Japan until 1947. Very Cool stuff. AATW

I think this has a lot more to do with Alaska and northern Canada than Finland. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was always told that the key future strategic theatre would be the Arctic and the Pacific, in that order. As tech and changing weather open up global trade lanes across the Arctic, Alaska will be one of the most strategic locations on Earth (the shortest distance between Asia and Europe will be through the Bering Strait and along the coast of Greenland), and Russia has a head start attempting to claim arctic waters.

@@TheCoolCucumber If this was a board game with no historical context or doctrine at play, perhaps. But the USA is not in the business of offensive land grabs, at least not since Teddy Rosevelt around 1900, and even then that wasn't very popular with people(he didn't get reelected). Also, Alaska is not CONUS, and most people don't realize just how sparse that region of Alaska and Canada are with almost zero infrastructure, but they will need to be defended. Alaska, specifically the coastlines and strait, is the Suez Canal or Panama Canal of the 22nd century. Not to mention all of the resources such as oil that is available in the Arctic Ocean that will need power projection to claim...not really boots on ground.

What’s Units of Action?

@@isaiahkoufos3573 That was TRADOC nonsense about fifteen years ago. Basically it was a combined arms Brigade, but the term “Brigade” was too easy, so they felt they had to gin it up to impress congressmen. Bureaucratic bullshit

The Euros really know how to fuck themselves over... again.

If you're thinking Russia is gonna try anything you're sorely mistaken. Talks of a Russian invasion are a way for news outlets to get soccer moms to click

Russia is a declining superpower. In it's current state it would get obliterated. That's without factoring in MAD. The only power that is a threat to the west is China

My father, 93, made both combat jumps in Korea with the 187th RCT, 11th Airborne Division.

Yes but instead of operating as independent BCTs, we now have a solidified command and a dedicated division support staff.

@@airbornedaddy1919 That's because tensions are higher than ever, and our enemies are within our own Country, in high places. These next 5 years will determine the survival of the most free Nation in history. Be in tune with your Oath and Spirit, for God is the only one to fear.

Are you a leg at wainwright?

Any ideas if you guys will be training out of country anywhere

@@flathead3233 This question feels like a trap lol Don’t answer Scotty; we both know the answer to it.

I was there 91-95

@@M60gunner1971 4/9 Cav 92-94

LRRS BRT and DIVCAV is on the table to be resurrected.

@scott, hey this is Nick. How are you Brother?

Trained with the Eskimo Scouts up in Kotzebue above the Arctic Circle on the Bering Strait back in 80' or 81'. Sharp individuals and balls of steel. Would run a snowmobile out until it ran out of gas, skied the rest of the way to do real world recons and then made their way back.

Dude, Russia can hardly sustain logistics to Ukraine, much less to Alaska in a fight against NATO.

@@ObliviousPenguin Yea. Sure. Your an expert.

Russia: *sells Alaska to the US* Also Russia: “hey give that back it’s ours”

@@jayduke6148 Considering how a country 10 times smaller than them has them in a war of attrition they cannot afford- yeah Pengiun is right. It's not like they ever could hope to invade the US, they couldn't perform an amphibious assault to save their nation lol.

Duke. This coveting of Alaska also stretches into BC. Russia had briefly explored the fur trade in coastal areas BC and Alaska. Even though they sold it there's some strange Slavic idea they still own it. I know a Ukrainian guy and a Belo Rusdian, when Sarah Polin was on the TV they both were glued to it hanging on to her every word. They hate her in fact! Even after BC settlements and Alaska was sold, Russian AND Finnish judges would ban violent criminals to North American pacific coastline. Knight Inlet in BC they robbed crab traps and shot at people, 1917 East Hazelton BC an armed Russian gang robbed the bank at gun point leading to a firefight. These stories of criminal activities are well documented.

I know the very guys that did this exchange, I missed out

​@@RadioMcRadioface Sorry, you missed out on that bud. I still remember how amazed they were about the awesome alps they were going to jump on, and how envious we were about the gear they had. We were still carrying the BM59 rifle, an M14 derivate. Felt like a bag of bricks compared to the AR15(?) they were using.

An a NY Italian and an Army para,, I always wanted to get stationed in Vincenza

@@jamescaliendo1030 Awesome "fratello"! Are you still on active duty? Being stationed in Italy would be a great experience for you bud. Being an Italian as you are, it would be the ultimate treat...

@@ZAGOR64 haha yes it sure would have been brother. But I'm long out now back home in nyc

Paratroopers are not really a defensive tool

@Anibal Perez NO THANKS! the sight seeing sixth was CURSED! too light to fight and too heavy to move!

No reason to. They are the 172d now.

@@manofaction1807 the 172nd has been deactivated for some time now.

@@ericlane3256 Probably showing my age here, if that's the case.... Damn Kids, Get off My Lawn!

@@jephrokimbo9050 that's a homosexual statement.

There is already a range of NATO accredited Centres of Excellence (COE), each responsible of developing the best coordinated warfare concept, doctrine and standardization for the alliance within their dedicated area of specialization. All COEs coordinated with the ongoing Allied Command Transformation (ACT), which defines the future military context. Each COE is dedicated to be primary source of a specific warfare subject, e.g. Cold Weather Operations and Mountain Warfare (I refer to the existing NATO COE-CWO and NATO COE-MW, respectively). Major General Brian S. Eifler, Commanding General of 11th Airborne Division, US Army, attended the CWO Conference in November 2021, and 11th Airborne will join COE-CWO training and coordination with other NATO countries in Troms (North Norway) from exercise Swift Response 2022, a 9.000 pax NATO exercise, and onwards. The bi-annual Cold Response sea/air/land NATO winter exercises (often combined with CWO courses) in North Norway are usually of size 15.000-35.000 pax from 25-28 NATO member countries, as well as Finland and Sweden invited as NATO partner countries.

The Canadian Rangers have their place for wilderness survival training but they aren't really trained or equipped for the main battle. They're more along the line of coast watchers and local guides. For cold weather combat most of the regular infantry units would be a better choice. That said the new units should look into getting the Canadian "tent group" system. Basically a cold weather tent and a sled for packing it and the extra kit to make it livable. It's been around since the sixties and they still haven't come up with anything better.

Why was it deactivated in the first place?

Good thing they were already an airborne unit huh? 😉

@@christiancarter9939 My point is the unit was stood down. It's coming back with mostly new personnel. Some of the NCO's and officer's will have had combat and training experience. Everyone else, is new meat.

@@keithjackson4985 it’s literally the same units, just got a new patch and reorganized. 4-25 became 1-11 and 1-25 became 2-11. They got rid of Alaska Command and made that Division HQ

@@peterprovenzano9039 Hey man thanks. Did that video say that?

@@keithjackson4985 clearly it did not say it very well if it did.

You mean Russian winters?

@@PineappleOnPizza69 Ya THINK?

Yeah no. It would become really hard to master paratrooper skills, air assault skills and combine both with arctic skills.

Yeah, f-k Alaska.

That's the dumbest thing I've read this morning.

You want military pride join the Marines. LGBTQ ain't gonna matter when the division is led by Rangers.

General "Jumping" Joe Swing ! My father served with the 11th airborne from 44-47.

@@MoviesFreeGalore pogue

Or they can just let it die out because not everything has to be about gay

What company

@@RoyalNyx 1-40 Cav

There's only one airborne brigade in the new division, and it was just reflagged. It was already an airborne brigade (4-25). The total number of airborne brigades in the Army is still the same (5)

Pretty much this ^, at least so far. There was already an Airborne (Arctic) brigade up here, "Spartans," so what is happening is that this unit, along with a Stryker BCT up here in Alaska, will be redesignated as part of 11th Airborne Division (Arctic). So far, it remains to be seen if the hitherto Stryker guys will be trained as parachute infantry. For sure, they will be getting rid of the Stryker vehicles, and focusing on the new (well, old-new-again) Arctic qualification, but if they will be full Airborne infantry appears to still be in limbo. One of the main things here is reactivation of the 11th Airborne as parent unit for the brigades, so as to give them a truly unique and more organic identity; currently the Spartans and the Strykers based in Alaska are headquartered to "Tropic Lightning" out of Hawaii, funny enough. Because of the idea of Near-Peer and LSCOs being the thing going into the future, the idea is for resurrection of Arctic qualified infantry unit (which used to exist in Alaska back in the day, through the very early '90s iirc), plus Airborne units that is oriented towards operations in arctic and sub-arctic regions. The elephant in the room though, is that this is probably more about China than it is potentially fighting Russians in Siberia or something, so North China Plain region, Manchuria, North Korea, etc., which can all see quite heavy snow and cold temperatures, along with rough terrain. The point being, basing in Japan is probabaly going to follow the 11th's reactivation, even if headquartered in Alaska. Corroborating this is the historical lineage of the division itself, which was formed for the Pacific theater in WWII and was subsequently based in occupation Japan.

Yup. Jock rash to frostbite.

Just another post to add to the rotation... Bragg- Italy- Alaska- to Korea and back again. All the Way!

@@manofaction1807 Opportunities. This Cold War USMC AirWing Vet wished the 7th and 9th ID's had not been disbanded.

canada doesn’t have shit for a military

Russia has no desires on Canda or Alaska. This is about NATO's expansion into the Nordic States.

Yes

Yep

Perhaps, I was in Alaska for 13 years and they can used a combined unit for Air Assault and Airborne. When I worked for an air cargo company I flew around the whole state and there are many places that have no roads. If say, China or Russia were to land in these remote area's or Islands, they could setup a base supplied by a Navy and use it to conduct interior operations, resupply operations, and refueling. That's just a defensive strategy, I'm sure the 11th would have offensive operations at their core, and that could mean northern Europe where there is a similar environment.

2nd BCT(A) (which was formerly 4th BCT(A) of the 25th ID) is airborne. 1st BCT (Stryker) of the 25th is being reflagged as 1st BCT of the 11th and replacing their Stykers with some other type of special arctic vehicles. I don't think they've quite figured it out yet.

Awww you know they're as strong or even stronger then men, right? 😬😵‍💫🙄

I bet that 4’9 female could whoop your ass

@@ThisIsMyRealName 15 year old men yeah