Uncle Sam
11-19-2003, 12:51 PM
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Spc. Jacques Andrews of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, and his team clear a small farmhouse in Baghdad on May 7, 2003. The paratroopers were working with local police to locate rocket-propelled grenades suspected of being on the property.
82nd Airborne Division
Soldiers: Roughly 5,000
Home fort: Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Deployed to: Kuwait
Units: The division's 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, a quick-reaction brigade combat team that has more than 4,000 soldiers, was ordered to deploy on January 12, 2003.
Also ordered to deploy were 18th Airborne Corps support elements consisting of the 35th Signal Brigade and 525th Military Intelligence Brigade.
Another 82nd Airborne brigade is in Afghanistan while a third brigade is at Fort Bragg, as one brigade is kept ready for airlift worldwide within 18 hours of being ordered to deploy.
The division's signal and military intelligence units returned to Fort Bragg in May 2003 and the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment is scheduled to return home in January 2004.
In September 2003, the division's 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment and elements from the division's Headquarters and Headquarters Company deployed to Iraq for six months to relieve the 3rd Infantry Division.
Duties: The 82nd Airborne's traditional role is speedy insertion -- either by parachute or by helicopter -- of soldiers on or near a battlefield. In Iraq, the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment protected supply lines, eliminated resistance bypassed by the main attacking units and launched a successful April 3 assault on Iraqi paramilitary forces attempting to organize north of the southern city of Samawa.
Spc. Jacques Andrews of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, and his team clear a small farmhouse in Baghdad on May 7, 2003. The paratroopers were working with local police to locate rocket-propelled grenades suspected of being on the property.
82nd Airborne Division
Soldiers: Roughly 5,000
Home fort: Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Deployed to: Kuwait
Units: The division's 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, a quick-reaction brigade combat team that has more than 4,000 soldiers, was ordered to deploy on January 12, 2003.
Also ordered to deploy were 18th Airborne Corps support elements consisting of the 35th Signal Brigade and 525th Military Intelligence Brigade.
Another 82nd Airborne brigade is in Afghanistan while a third brigade is at Fort Bragg, as one brigade is kept ready for airlift worldwide within 18 hours of being ordered to deploy.
The division's signal and military intelligence units returned to Fort Bragg in May 2003 and the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment is scheduled to return home in January 2004.
In September 2003, the division's 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment and elements from the division's Headquarters and Headquarters Company deployed to Iraq for six months to relieve the 3rd Infantry Division.
Duties: The 82nd Airborne's traditional role is speedy insertion -- either by parachute or by helicopter -- of soldiers on or near a battlefield. In Iraq, the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment protected supply lines, eliminated resistance bypassed by the main attacking units and launched a successful April 3 assault on Iraqi paramilitary forces attempting to organize north of the southern city of Samawa.