Will You Go Golfing With The 173rd Airborne?

Every unit in the military has a moment they are known for, several have many moments they were known for. My unit, the 29th Infantry Division will always be remembered for storming the beaches at Normandy. We were also the first National Guard unit that was combat arms called up for Bosnia, and we did rotations of both Iraq and Afghanistan. I was lucky enough to join the unit in Afghanistan, and for the second half of that deployment we were actually assigned to the 173rd Airborne. At the time, we were less than excited about that prospect, because if one of our squads got hit by an enemy about 5 times our strength, the 173rd policy was to hold the enemy in place, and they’d come out and take care of the rest. Not always the most encouraging thing you can hear over the radio when rounds are flying by you.


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