ski troops

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The 10th Mountain Division, a light infantry unit out of Fort Drum, N.Y., specialized in rapid deployments, was modeled after the elite Finnish ski troops who effectively used mobility, camouflage and survival skills to hold off invading Soviet forces in the 1939 Winter War.

From The Wall Street Journal

He served in World War II in the famed 10th Mountain Division, the Army’s ski troops, as leader of a special weapons platoon.

From Los Angeles Times

Early in January, when we had all just returned from the Christmas holidays, a recruiter from the United States ski troops showed a film to the senior class in the Renaissance Room.

From Literature

This established our liaison with World War II. The Tunisian campaign became “Leper’s liberation”; the bombing of the Ruhr was greeted by Brinker with hurt surprise: “He didn’t tell us he’d left the ski troops”; the torpedoing of the Scharnhorst: “At it again.”

From Literature

“I’m going to enlist in these ski troops,” he went on mildly, so unemphatically that my mind went back to halflistening.

From Literature