Story by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes | National Guard Bureau | 01.27.2022
CAMP ETHAN ALLEN TRAINING SITE, Vt. – Each service member who enters the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School passes under a placard with an ominous warning from famed American Revolutionary War Maj. Gen. Ethan Allen: “The Gods of the valleys are not the Gods of the hills.” The students whose legs have jellied after trudging up Castle Trail, whose forearms have felt the fire of muscle......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes | National Guard Bureau | 01.26.2022
CAMP ETHAN ALLEN TRAINING SITE, Vt. – The U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School dates back to April 5, 1983, when it was established in a mobile home next to a tin shack on a small hill in Jericho, Vermont. The tin shack still exists, across from where the new $30 million facility is being constructed. In 1983, the cadre and staff worked out of the Red House – a farmhouse that housed......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes | National Guard Bureau | 01.25.2022
CAMP ETHAN ALLEN TRAINING SITE, Vt. – The education that the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School doesn’t end at the Basic Military Mountaineer Course, in fact that is just the tip of the ice burg of the plethora mountaineering knowledge the schoolhouse offers. From the four advanced and specialty courses taught in the hills and mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire, to the Mobile......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes | National Guard Bureau | 01.24.2022
CAMP ETHAN ALLEN TRAINING SITE, Vt. – Service members from French desert commandos to U.S. Special Forces? operators have sung the praises of U.S. Army Mountain Warfare instructors. The Vermont Army National Guard instructors are known in civilian mountaineering communities as some of the most technically qualified in the world, said Lt. Col Steve Gagner, the commander of the......
