Looking for any advice on fleshing this out!

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When Romania declared for NATO, allied planners knew they had a brief window in which they might be able to provide advisors and troops to the former PACT country. The most immediate tool at their disposal - the European based 173rd Airborne, which had been reconstituted earlier and was now looking for a home anywhere but Italy.

Romania was a natural fit for a number of reasons. Firstly, the languages were quite similar. Troops that had studied Italian to order beers, pick up girls, and navigate around town, found that the vocabulary and sentence structure were quite similar to Romanian. Likewise, the training the unit frequently did in the Alps, was not wasted in the Carpathian. The relatively short travel distance ensured that sorties received fast turn around, allowing the entire unit to deploy quickly and efficiently.

All of these advantages permitted the 173rd to establish operations in Romania well in advance of the Soviet assault on the country.
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https://www.army.mil/article/145463/...ntain_training
https://lifeinthearmy.com/2018/12/06...borne-brigade/
https://www.strategypage.com/militar...112124228.aspx

Looks like a good fit for fighting in the Carpathian mountains! Lots of mountain warfare training.

Any help appreciated!