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