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8 unusual facts about Fort Drum


10th Sustainment Brigade

It provides logistical support to the 10th Mountain Division and is located on Fort Drum in Northern New York State.

When the Division was officially reactivated as the 10th Mountain Division on 13 February 1985 at Fort Drum, New York, the Division Trains found a new home.

138th Attack Squadron

In the summer of 1965, the squadron took part in Exercise Oneida Bear II at Fort Drum, which involved some 6,500 soldiers of the regular Army, the Army Reserve and the National Guard.

178th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing

The 1980 exercise year started with "Empire Glacier" at Fort Drum, New York.

Danny Peebles

And his oldest son Danny (D.J.), being two yrs in the United States Army, stationed in Fort Drum, in Jefferson County, New York.

Fort Drum

Units from the New York Army National Guard from central and northern New York under the 27th Infantry Brigade made the roundout brigade.

Jeremy Brizzi

After only a few months he was transferred to Fort Drum, NY where he served the remainder of his enlistment with the 10th Mountain Division.

Larry D. Wyche

While serving as the Commander of the 10th Sustainment Brigade at Fort Drum, New York, he deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom where he served as the commander of the Joint Logistics Command, Combined Joint Task Force - 76, responsible for logistics support to Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Sailors in Afghanistan.


1st Battalion 10th Marines

During the 1980s, the battalion became a Cold Weather trained unit, conducting training at Fort Drum, New York and above the Arctic Circle.

Camp Liberty killings

2009 Lloyd R. Woodson case—Arrested with military-grade illegal weapons he intended to use in a violent crime, and a detailed map of the Fort Drum military installation

Gun turret

Gun turrets have been placed in static, land fortifications such as the Maginot Line forts in France and particularly in coastal artillery defences such as Fort Drum, the "concrete battleship", near Corregidor, Philippines.

Ken Poulsen

Poulsen gained his promotion as a replacement for Dalton Jones, who had to report for two weeks of Army reserve duty at Camp Drum in New York.

Lunsford E. Oliver

MG Oliver led the division throughout the remainder of the war, including training in the Mojave Desert near Needles, California through March 1943, the Tennessee Maneuvers through the Summer, and final validation and reorganization of the division at Pine Camp (Now Fort Drum, New York) through the Winter into early 1944.

Operation Eagle Ares

Troops of the 4th Brigade, Iraqi 6th Division and Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., air assaulted in the area, and then began searching reeds along canals for weapons caches.


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Interstate 781

In April 2009, project engineers discovered that Indiana bats—an endangered species of bat—live in the area in and surrounding the proposed right-of-way of the Fort Drum Connector (I-781).