10th Mountain Division
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Sep 14, 2026
Dave PayneHOST
In 1922, he crafted the original Trapper Nelson, a canvas bag with a detachable wood frame and steel pins.
Dave PayneHOST
The modern backpack began to take its true shape in the 1930s after Gerry Cunningham, a mountaineer who went on to serve with the 10th Mountain Division, added zippered compartments for easy access while rock climbing.
Dave PayneHOST
Cunningham switched to manufacturing nylon models in 1967.
Dave PayneHOST
Then that same year, Murray McMurray established JanSport with his girlfriend, Jan Lewis, offering nylon packs with lightweight aluminum frames.
Matt YoungGUEST
So we were, we showed a lot of our programs on there and, um, we got a request to do an American documentary.
Matt YoungGUEST
So, so we, uh, we started doing this in, uh, 2023 and, uh, it's all about the 10th mountain division, which is out of, uh, Fort Drum, um, And they basically were the first ones to be called into Afghanistan after 9-11.
Matt YoungGUEST
So they're the mountain division.
Matt YoungGUEST
They are the ones that you call when you need to get into a mountainous area.
Matt YoungGUEST
And it's kind of a two-part story.
Matt YoungGUEST
There's the guys that, like I was talking about, the first ones that got the call to go into Afghanistan in 2001.
Matt YoungGUEST
And then the last out part, which is also the 10th Mountain Division, uh, That's why it's called first and last out, because they were among the first ones in to Afghanistan.
Matt YoungGUEST
And then 20 years later, they're among the first ones out or the last ones out.
Tom HomanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And actually, a shout-out to Fort Drum, New York.
Tom HomanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've got some 10th Mountain Division here, so Elise Stefanik, Claudia Tennant, we all love Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain.
Tom HomanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So look, this is a game-changer.
Tom HomanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I want to make something perfectly clear.
Brian MackeyHOST
That clip is from the Oral History Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Brian MackeyHOST
An extraordinary event, the governor said, and one that made a lot of us angry, including one of our listeners, David in Mount Morris, who says, I had just joined the Army as an infantryman, was in Fort Polk, Louisiana, training up for Kosovo with the 10th Mountain Division when 9-11 took place.
Brian MackeyHOST
It was a mixed bag of emotions that day, anger, fear, vengeance, and excitement.
Brian MackeyHOST
Yes, I said excitement.
Jesse QueckGUEST
... where they were assigned to the fires battalion, and then they would come down to you before deployment, like three months prior, and do your, you know, company level train up.
Jesse QueckGUEST
Um, so I think that's h- I'm pretty sure that's how it was structured when I first got to 10th Mountain.
Jesse QueckGUEST
Um, the FISTers were, you know, off in their unit, and we were off in, in ours-
AsherHOST
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Jesse QueckGUEST
Um, so once you graduate airborne school, or once you're in airborne school about to graduate, then you then get your orders cut for where- wherever you're going.
Jesse QueckGUEST
So, you know, everybody, me, a new guy, thinking, "Okay, I'm in airborne school.
Jesse QueckGUEST
They're gonna send me to an airborne unit." Um, and 10th Mountain I guess was next to deploy, so they sent a bunch of us there.
Jesse QueckGUEST
Uh, I remember people like saying, "Are you a RASP dropout?" Like, "You got airborne wings and you're a private.
Vladimiro “Isaac” VasquezGUEST
You know, doing things that they're not supposed to do, so I, I really didn't get a lot of mentorship out of there.
Vladimiro “Isaac” VasquezGUEST
So I was kind of a knucklehead, right? So by the time I left there and I got to, um, Fort Drum, Fort Drum, New York, in the 10th Mountain, I was assigned to the 3rd Brigade combat team, and that's really when the leadership molding began.
Vladimiro “Isaac” VasquezGUEST
And I had this, and I, I, I still talk about him till this day, sergeant, for he is a sergeant major now.
Vladimiro “Isaac” VasquezGUEST
He might be retired now, but he made it to the ranks of sergeant major.
John LloydGUEST
I didn't know what path I was leaning towards, but that path didn't seem to be one that I was, I was going to take.
John LloydGUEST
So I was trying to figure things out, and strangely enough, I, I come from a small town in Western New York, right outside Buffalo, Lockport, New York, and I was, uh, reading through the local newspaper, and I came across an ad, a Army recruiting ad for, actually, I think it was the 10th Mountain Division, and I saw the ad.
John LloydGUEST
And I don't know if it's divine intervention or how it got me to pick up the phone and call the recruiter, but that's exactly what I did.
John LloydGUEST
Without my parents knowing, I called the recruiter and said, "Hey, I, I, I'm interested in hearing more about the Army." I had had uncles that had served in World War II, but besides that, I didn't have an immediate connection.
Noah PhilipGUEST
This was again, also come to think of it, sort of fighting-- actually, I mean, yes, the Nazis, but actually it was the Italians that he was trying to figure out how to, how to fight.
Noah PhilipGUEST
And somehow managed to, uh, end up founding this thing we call the 10th Mountain Division now in the States, but, but essentially founding a service and safety organization, people to, to go out and he founded, I mean, found an organization to figure out how to train folks, how to get them out there, how to help them, and how otherwise.
Noah PhilipGUEST
And, uh, he also apparently, uh, really enjoyed, if you believe the stories, really, really enjoyed his beer, and I think we'd have a good time, uh, together in that regard.
Noah PhilipGUEST
The last one is more historical, and I would love to be chatting with anyone who was around really in the sort of the older and Old Testament times.
Matthew HoGUEST
I mean, this is not so much a failure of the political leadership that deserves all types of criticism and condemnation, but as well, this is a failure of our admirals and generals.
Matthew HoGUEST
White House couldn't care less if it was the 82nd in the Middle East or the 101st or the 10th Mountain or whoever.
Matthew HoGUEST
You're telling me the Pentagon can't find another brigade to send there to replace those young men and women? Right.
Matthew HoGUEST
I mean, so there's a callousness within the senior leadership of the U.S. military.
Ken RamosGUEST
He was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division and then the 25th ID.
Ken RamosGUEST
All of our connections with the 10th Mountain, my dad was 114, Golden Dragons.
Ken RamosGUEST
And so he was part of the 125th ID, sent a brigade out to Vietnam to be under 4th ID as well.
Ken RamosGUEST
So he could sport both patches as far as his time in Vietnam.
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Ken RamosGUEST
Well, what's funny is that when I was on my first tour, we had the elements of the 173rd because obviously, you know, they jumped in the North.
Ken RamosGUEST
And so we had elements of the 173rd with us as well.
Ken RamosGUEST
And we also had members of the 10th Mountain Division with us as well for the Western Desert Mission.
Ken RamosGUEST
And the irony of it is that when I had gone back and then I got assigned to the 1st Armored Division and then I came back for my second tour, There were guys when the first summer division was leaving, they were coming back.
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