About 560 infantrymen from the 3rd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Div., at Fort Campbell, Ky., deployed to Montana. Div.'s Team Dragon. But when you start digging you'll find all the red-hot embers. And those embers can start the fire going again. I can't believe how fast this forest catches fire.
Soldiers face many dangers on the fire line.
Although fighting fires is foreign to most of the soldiers, they have been able to shift gears effectively, said Don Black, the deputy assistant commander of the Northern Rockies Incident Management team. When the civilian fire-fighters reach their limit, crews start to rotate from one fire to another. Back at the fire base camps the Army and Air Force Exchange Service set up mobile stores and the USO sent a troupe of performers to entertain the soldiers. In late August, the United Services Organization sent performers to the base camps in Idaho and Montana.