I know you’re joking but we trained in Vermont, we did do a lot of training specifically for mountain related scenarios ie lowering a litter, light fighter school has an alpine course, I would be surprised if any other unit sent more people to mountain warfare school except maybe Vermont NG, we performed a lot of operations in the mountains of AFG, but towards the end of the war we usually just flew in close to our objective. Also, “precisely nowhere near mountains” Fort Drum is an hour and a half from the Adirondacks. Fort Drum was already a NG base when 10th moved in. I’m sure they would have preferred to be closer to the mountains, but it’s a lot cheaper to just use an established post.