(Harrison Kahrig – TruthScript) Before they jumped behind enemy lines in Normandy, captured the town of Carentan, jumped into Holland during the failed Operation Market Garden, or defied the 5th Panzer Army at the Battle of the Bulge, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment ran. “3 miles up, 3 miles down” was the motto as they ascended and descended Currahee Mountain almost daily for 4 months. This was part of their rigorous training before the regiment would be shipped off to Europe to fight in an 11-month-long campaign against the German war machine.
The training they received under the shadow of Currahee was so arduous that out of 5,800 men, only 1,948 graduated. Soldiers described it as physically and mentally excruciating. However, they also admitted that, due to its difficult nature, it weeded out the unfit, built their physical and mental endurance beyond that of a typical soldier, and gave them confidence in the men they would fight alongside, which, in turn, led to a deep sense of camaraderie.
As the war raged on and replacements who had never experienced Currahee arrived, the few men left from the original 1,948 were referred to as the “Currahee men.” Currahee was not the totality of their training, but the mountain was the summation of everything they had experienced, and soldiers often remarked that nothing prepared them for war as well as Currahee did.
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