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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 U.S. Military Academy, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), the 5th Infantry Division, the 25th Infantry Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division, and the XVIII Airborne Corps all had their own Recondo Schools with their own course of instruction. [4] [6] [7]
The LRSD's are organized into a headquarters section, communications section (two base radio stations), and six surveillance teams. (Light division LRS detachments only have four surveillance teams.) The leaders are airborne and Ranger qualified. All other personnel in the detachment are airborne qualified.
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 ...
The 82nd Airborne Division said farewell to Maj. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, while welcoming back Brig. Gen. Patrick Work back.
An Air Force weather parachutist—a staff weather officer with the 82nd Airborne Division—wearing grey beret with Combat Weather Team Beret Flash and crest (2007) Staff Weather Officers (SWOs) are United States Air Force personnel tasked with providing tactical and operational meteorological support for conventional Army forces.
Then-Maj. Gen. Mike Scaparrotti and the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters arrive at Pope Air Force Base on June 11, 2010, after a nearly 14-month deployment.
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 ...