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The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) ("Screaming Eagles") [2] is a light infantry division of the United States Army that specializes in air assault operations. [3] The 101st is designed to plan, coordinate, and execute brigade -sized air assault operations that can be conducted in one period of darkness, at distances up to 500 nautical ...
0–9. XVIII Airborne Corps; 54th Engineer Battalion (United States) 75th Ranger Regiment; 88th Infantry Regiment (United States) 91st Cavalry Regiment
13th Airborne Division – "Golden Unicorns"; taken from their shoulder patch, a winged unicorn in orange on an ultramarine blue, the branch of service colours of the United States Army Air Corps, was approved on 2 June 1943. A gold on black "Airborne" tab was worn above the insignia.
In 1940, the War Department approved the formation of a test platoon of Airborne Infantry under the direction and control of the Army's Infantry Board. A test platoon of volunteers was organized from Fort Benning's 29th Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Infantry Division was directed to conduct tests to develop reference data and operational procedures for air-transported troops.
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
Pages in category "Airborne divisions of the United States Army" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 13th Airborne Division was the fifth airborne division (11th, 13th, 17th, 82nd and 101st) to be formed in the United States during World War II, and was officially activated on Friday 13 August 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under the command of Major General George W. Griner Jr. [1]
List of United States Army lieutenant generals from 1990 to 1999; List of United States Army lieutenant generals from 2000 to 2009; List of United States Army lieutenant generals from 2010 to 2019; List of United States Army lieutenant generals since 2020; List of female United States military generals and flag officers; United States military ...