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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.
The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into hostile areas [1] with a U.S. Department of Defense mandate to be "on-call to fight any time, anywhere" at "the knife's edge of technology and readiness."
The United States Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum (ASOM) is part of the U.S. Army Museum Enterprise dedicated to preserving and teaching a public history of the Special Operations and Airborne community, as well as broader United States military history. Located on Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), but geographically separate from ...
Composed of 88% National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers from 32 different states, as well as 12% Regular Army Paratroopers from the other battalions of the 505th PIR, the 4th Battalion, 505th PIR deployed to the Sinai from January 1995 through July 1995. [3] Following its redeployment to Fort Bragg from the Sinai, the 4th Battalion was ...
Pope Field was on Fort Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne Division and later 11th Airborne Division. Grenada Field , Mississippi was located near Camp Claiborne, Louisiana , home of the 101st Airborne Division ; Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base , North Carolina, was frequently the location of joint exercises between troop carrier units and Army ...
A few days into the spring of 1994, paratroopers waited for an airborne training operation on the tarmac at then-Pope Air Force Base. It was March 23, and the skies above the airfield of then-Fort ...
The 2-503d was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky as part of the 3d Bde along with the 1-503d and 3-187th. From December 1986 to September 1990, the 2-503rd was assigned to Camp Hovey, Korea, along with the 1-503rd, as a Light Infantry battalion.
“Now I feel like joining the US military,” Francis Odey said. “I’m trying not to cry,” Annie Baum wrote. The roots of the 82nd Airborne Division All-American Band and Chorus date to 1942 ...