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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.
Airborne divisions of the United States Army (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Airborne units and formations of the United States Army" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
11th Airborne Division; 13th Airborne Division (United States) 17th Airborne Division (United States) 80th Airborne Division; 82nd Airborne Division; 100th Airborne Division; 101st Airborne Division; 108th Airborne Division (United States)
[422] [423] The BCTs of US Army Alaska reflagged as of 6 June 2022, from 1st SBCT/25th ID, and 4th IBCT (Abn)/25th ID, to 1st IBCT/11th Abn Div, and 2nd IBCT (Abn)/11th Abn Div respectively; US Army Alaska is now 11th Airborne Division as of 6 June 2022. [424] The Bundeswehr is thinking of training in Alaska. [425]
For the first time, the division was the base element of the United States Army and remained as such until the Global War on Terrorism, when the Army switched its emphasis to brigades and brigade combat teams. Since the authorizations of permanent divisions, the United States Army has raised 128 separate divisions with unique lineages.
As part of the reorganization of the 101st Division as an airborne division, the unit was disbanded in the Organized Reserve on 15 August 1942 and reconstituted and reactivated in the Army of the United States. [17] On 19 August 1942, its first commander, Major General William C. Lee, read out General Order Number 5: [21]
Regional army commands (e.g. 3rd Army, 7th Army, 8th Army) will remain in use in the future but with changes to the organization of their headquarters designed to make the commands more integrated and relevant in the structure of the reorganized Army, as the chain of command for a deployed division headquarters now runs directly to an Army ...
The present XVIII Airborne Corps was constituted in the Regular Army on 14 January 1942, five weeks after the entry of the United States into World War II, as the II Armored Corps, and was activated on 17 January 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana, under the command of Major General William Henry Harrison Morris, Jr.