Col. Patrick Hynes, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat

Col. Patrick Hynes, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, addresses the attendees of a ceremony held to mark the deactivation of the Brigade Special Troops Battalion and the reactivation as the 37th Brigade Engineer Battalion at Stang Field on Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov. 15. The activation of the BEB is one of the first steps for the division’s conversion to the Army’s new BCT 2020 organization.