#PodhaleRifles or Podhale Riflemen (Polish: Strzelcy podhalańscy, nicknamed "Podhalańczycy") is the traditional name of the mountain infantry units of the #PolishArmy. Formed in 1918 out of volunteers of the region of Podhale, in 1919 the smaller detachments of Podhale Rifles were pressed into two mountain infantry divisions, the #21stMountainInfantry and #22ndMountainInfantryDivisions, as well as into three brigades of mountain infantry and were considered #elite units of the Polish Army.