‘I can’t imagine doing this in boots’ — Soldiers revisit Currahee Mountain of ‘Band of Brothers’ fame
David Roza
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to members of the modern-day 506th Infantry Regiment as "paratroopers."
Anyone who’s seen ‘Band of Brothers’ knows the infamous run up Currahee Mountain that the soldiers of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment had to do again and again on their way to becoming the famed “Easy Company†that fought through some of the bloodiest battles of World War Two.
The brutal ‘three miles up, three miles down’ gets steeper the farther up you go and, if the HBO show is any proof, the men of Easy had to crush it to avoid getting dropped from the airborne ranks.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/101st-airborne-runs-up-currahee
