82nd Airborne Division

The 82nd Airborne Division is a United States Army airborne infantry division, that specializes in parachute assault, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Currently, the division is commanded by... Wikipedia

• Active:  1917–1919, 1921-present
• Type:  Airborne light infantry
• Role:  Airborne assault
• Size:  Division
• Part of:  XVIII Airborne Corps
• Garrison/HQ:  Fort Bragg, North Carolina, US
• Nickname(s):  "America's Guard of Honor", "All American Division", "82nd Division", "Eighty Deuce", "The 82nd"
• Motto(s):  "All The Way!", "Death from Above"
• March:  "The All-American Soldier"
• Engagements:  World War I, European theatre, Western Front, Hundred Days Offensive, Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, World War II, Mediterranean and Middle East theatre, Italian campaign, Operation Husky, Battle of Gela, Battle of Biazza Ridge, Operation Avalanche, Battle of Salerno, Battle of Altavilla, Battle of Chiunzi Pass, Volturno Line, Volturno River, Barbara Line, Winter Line, Bernhardt Line, Battle of Anzio, European theatre, Western Front, Liberation of France, Operation Overlord, Operation Neptune, American airborne landings in Normandy, Mission Boston, Mission Detroit, Mission Elmira, Battle of Sainte-Mère-Église, Battle of La Fière, Liberation of the Netherlands, Operation Market Garden, Battle of Nijmegen, Waal River Crossing, Battle of Groesbeek Heights, Battle of the Nijmegen salient, Liberation of Belgium, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Werbomont, Battle of Cheneux, Battle of Trois-Ponts, Western Allied invasion of Germany, Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, Battle of Schmidt (1945), Cold War, Dominican Civil War, Civil rights movement, Ghetto riots (1964–1969), Long, hot summer of 1967, 1967 Detroit riot, Indochina wars, Vietnam War, Tet Offensive, Operation Carentan, Operation Delaware, Operation Nevada Eagle, Invasion of Grenada, Central American crisis, Nicaraguan Revolution, Operation Golden Pheasant, Invasion of Panama, Raid at Renacer Prison, Arab Cold War, Gulf War, Post–Cold War era, Operation Uphold Democracy, Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, Cuban post-revolution exodus, 1994 Cuban rafter crisis, Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage, Yugoslav Wars, Operation Joint Endeavor, Kosovo War, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Global War on Terrorism, Afghan conflict, War in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, United States invasion of Afghanistan, Operation Freedom's Sentinel, 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, 2021 Kabul airlift, Iraq War, 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraqi civil war, Battle of Turki, Operation Inherent Resolve, War in Iraq, Syrian civil war, Humanitarian response by national governments to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Operation Unified Response
• Decorations:  Meritorious Unit Commendation
• Website:  Official Website of the Division
• Commander:  MG Brandon R. Tegtmeier
• Deputy Commanding General – Operations:  BG Andrew Kiser
• Deputy Commanding General – Support:  BG Bryan Babich
• Deputy Commanding General – Plans:  Brigadier Henry Llewelyn-Usher, British Army
• Command Sergeant Major:  CSM James "JB" Bradshaw
• Notable, commanders:  Complete list of commanders
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo