Alpini

We now had to do the rest of the journey on foot.

We scaled a precipice, and at last reached what we were looking for, the forest mountain home of the Alpini.

We saw the colonel of this regiment, and he showed us all around.

I still felt I was riding the mule.

Yeah.

Um, so I used World War I as kind of like a flashpoint element, one, because the Italian Alpini, they were basically a, a mountain, um, element out- side the, the, the Al- uh, the Alps in Italy.

Mm.

Yeah.

Well,

there's some of that in the, so the, in the Italian Albanian kind of Greece campaign where that Italian Julia division, the Alpini division was one of the main lead units.

And it, It punched, and it did pretty well, but it got surrounded.

It got surrounded.