BAND OF BROTHERS NO MORE - Fort Campbell, KY. The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, also known as the Currahees, is one of 10 brigade combat teams that the Army will shut down between now and 2015. The Army announced Monday that the shutdown process for those teams would speed up, with budget cuts forcing the military to decommission units by 2015 instead of 2017 as originally planned. The inactivation of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, which became famous in a book by historian Stephen Ambrose and a subsequent HBO miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, is set to take place in the spring, but no official date has been set. Full MSN article below. Reposted by Online On The Air. news.msn/us/band-of-brothers-unit-returns-from-last-mission?ocid=fbmsn
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:10:22 +0000
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