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On May 15, the 101st Airborne inactivated its 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, including the brigade's Pathfinder company. [5] The 101st CAB was redesignated the CAB, 101st Airborne, bringing it in line with other non-numbered divisional CABs, and the division assumed the same organizational structure as the light infantry 10th Mountain Division.
One version of the patch worn on the uniforms of American pathfinders who served during World War II. In military organizations, a pathfinder is a specialized soldier inserted or dropped into place in order to set up and operate drop zones, pickup zones, and helicopter landing sites for airborne operations, air resupply operations, or other air operations in support of the ground unit commander.
Aug 1 – 3: Operation Pike [1] [9]: 119 1st Marine Division search and destroy operation: Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín Province: Aug 2 – 13: Operation Hood River [1] 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division search and destroy operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: Aug 3 – 18: Operation Emporia II [11]
Operation Austin [1] 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division operations: Bình Thuận, Bình Tuy, Lâm Đồng, Phước Long and Quang Doc Provinces: Apr 12 – 26: Operation Austin I [1] 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division search and destroy operation: upper Dak Som River valley, III Corps: Apr 12 – 26: Operation Austin II [1]
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] It can plan, coordinate, and execute brigade -sized air assault operations, within one period of darkness, up to 500 nautical miles behind enemy lines, to seize key terrain for ...
On 1 December a unit of the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne, discovered the bodies of 15 enemy soldiers in graves while searching an area 6 miles (9.7 km) east southeast of Phú Lộc District. [6] At 19:30 on 2 February, Camp Eagle, the 101st Airborne headquarters located southeast of Huế, received 5 rounds of 122mm rockets.
On 14 May units of the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne found 53 PAVN bodies about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the Laotian border. In the same area on 15 May at 13:15, an element of the 3rd Brigade engaged a PAVN force in a battle that continued until 15:10 when the PAVN broke contact leaving 74 dead while US casualties were 1 killed.
The 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles") [1] is a specialized modular light infantry division of the US Army trained for air assault operations. [2] The Screaming Eagles has been referred to by journalists as "the tip of the spear" [3] as well as one of the most potent and tactically mobile of the U.S. Army's divisions. [4]