General Freakely takes over 10th Mountain Division

[Cocoa]

http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3762239

FORT DRUM, N.Y. With a passing of the colors and booming cannons, Major General Benjamin Freakley assumed command of the Army's heralded 10th Mountain Division today.

The change in leadership came during an hourlong ceremony as some 25-hundred troops and spectators looked on.

It comes at a critical time for the fast-growing division that has been the military's most deployed since being reactivated 20 years ago.

Some 3-thousand Fort Drum troops from the Division's 1st Brigade left for Iraq earlier this month. Next year, about 8-thousand Fort Drum soldiers from the 3rd, 4th and aviation brigades will go to Afghanistan, including Freakley.

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[shadowknows69]

1. A military base can be great for the economy

except in fort drums case where its empty all the time. the soldiers are going to come back to a ghost town one of these days since the idiots that run/ruined my city made FT Drum our sole source of financial sustenance.

[GoneOffShore]

2. With a name like Freakley

I thought you were joking! Took me back to the days of Cheech and Chong.

[Cocoa]

3. he's a very kinky general...

:-)