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Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 82nd Airborne Division. This is a list of commanders of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army. The 82nd Airborne Division is one of the oldest divisions in the U.S. Army, having been raised shortly after the American entry into World War I in April 1917 and seeing service in World War I and World War II and many subsequent conflicts. Major General ...
Army Forces Command: Commanders; Commanding General: ... including the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, ... 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Liberty, NC
From May 2004 until June 2006 Caldwell served as the Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division. As the division commander, Caldwell oversaw deployments by the units under his command to both Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as disaster-relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. [9] Caldwell walks in Eastern Baghdad in April ...
Brig. Gen. Patrick Work, the incoming commander for the 82nd Airborne Division, makes remarks during command change ceremony Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, on Pike Field at Fort Liberty.
On 15 August 1942, the 82nd Infantry Division, now commanded by Major General Ridgway, became the first airborne division in the history of the U.S. Army, and was redesignated as the 82nd Airborne Division. The 82nd was selected after deliberations by the U.S. Army General Staff because of a number of factors; it was not a Regular Army or ...
The National Training Center is part of the US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). The opposing force at the National Training Center is the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the Blackhorse Cavalry, who are stationed at the base to provide an opposing force to units on a training rotation at Fort Irwin. In September 2017, a state-of-the-art hospital ...
The 82 nd Airborne All-American Chorus dedicated its audition performance to a fallen comrade—Specialist Elijah Crawford—and the 19,000 men and women who support the Airborne Division. Tonight ...
He most recently served as the commanding general of XVIII Airborne Corps from 2022 to 2024. [3] He previously served as commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division from 2020 to 2022. Throughout his career, Donahue served in staff and command positions for both United States Army and Special Operations units. [4]