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1 day ago · 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." [2] Primarily based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina ...
- List of Commanders of 82nd Airborne Division (United States)
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 82nd Airborne Division. This...
- 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
History Vietnam. The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne...
- 325th Infantry Regiment
The 325th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the...
- Joe Gandara
Joe Gandara (April 25, 1924 – June 9, 1944) was a U.S. Army...
- 504th Infantry Regiment
The 504th Infantry Regiment, originally the 504th Parachute...
- John R. Towle
On September 21, 1944, during Operation Market Garden, near...
- Xviii Airborne Corps
The XVIII Airborne Corps is a corps of the United States...
- 73rd Cavalry Regiment
The 73rd Cavalry Regiment is a Cavalry Regiment in the...
- Leonard A. Funk Jr
First Sergeant Leonard Alfred Funk Jr. (August 27, 1916 –...
- List of Commanders of 82nd Airborne Division (United States)
8 hours ago · Martha Elizabeth McSally (born March 22, 1966) is an American politician and former military pilot who represented Arizona in both chambers of Congress between 2015 and 2020. She is to date the last Republican to serve Arizona in the U.S. Senate. McSally served in the United States Air Force from 1988 to 2010, achieving the rank of colonel.
8 hours ago · Time in space. 9d 19h 54m [2] Missions. STS-95. Mission insignia. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. [3]
8 hours ago · Marines and other American forces began staging in Pakistan and Uzbekistan on the border of Afghanistan as early as October 2001 in preparation for Operation Enduring Freedom. The 15th and 26th Marine Expeditionary Units were some of the first conventional forces into Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in November 2001.
8 hours ago · Bay of Pigs Invasion. Part of the Cold War and the. Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution. Counterattack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces near Playa Girón on 19 April 1961. Date. 17–20 April 1961. Location. Bay of Pigs, southwestern coast of Cuba. 22°03′42″N 81°01′55″W / .
- 17-20 April 1961
1 day ago · On 2 October 2002 a tri-national detachment of 18 Dutch, Danish and Norwegian F-16 ground attack aircraft and one Dutch KDC-10 tanker deployed to Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan in support of ground forces in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The KDC-10 returned to the Netherlands on 1 April 2003, and the Dutch F-16 detachment on ...
8 hours ago · On 11 December 2001, as a part of New Zealand's contribution to Operation Enduring Freedom, the NZSAS commenced Operation CONCORD. This deployment saw the NZSAS deploying a Squadron as a component of Task Force K-Bar to perform operations as part of the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan.
