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Command Sgt. Maj. Butler J. Kendrick (left), senior

Command Sgt. Maj. Butler J. Kendrick (left), senior

Command Sgt. Maj. Butler J. Kendrick (left), senior enlisted adviser for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, presents Maj. William S. Whitman with a brigade coin during a visit to the Col. Walt... More

Sgt. 1st Class Marvin D. Cornett was awarded the Purple

Sgt. 1st Class Marvin D. Cornett was awarded the Purple

Sgt. 1st Class Marvin D. Cornett was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal during a ceremony in Auburn, Calif., Feb. 22, 2021. Cornett was assigned to Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachu... More

The power of change through non-violence: Army leaders study key lessons in Greensboro for Black History Month

The power of change through non-violence: Army leaders study key lesso...

Roy “Spaceman” Thompson, Jr. lectured and led discussion about his experiences as both a student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University during the late 1960s and his service in the Army d... More

Capt. Marissa F. Ballesteros, commander, 21st Military

Capt. Marissa F. Ballesteros, commander, 21st Military

Capt. Marissa F. Ballesteros, commander, 21st Military Police Company, 503rd MP Battalion, 16th MP Brigade meets with her group of mentees during a monthly small group meeting Feb . 27 at Fort Bragg, N.C. These... More

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, the commanding

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, the commanding

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, the commanding general of the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg speaks to past and present paratroopers, families, and supporters during the National Airborne Day opening c... More

A Baby Allie doll waits to be donated at the 16th Annual

A Baby Allie doll waits to be donated at the 16th Annual

A Baby Allie doll waits to be donated at the 16th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, at Green Ramp, Pope Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 6, 2013. The first phase of toy drop includes bringing ... More

Rodney Kramer, a 97-year-old veteran of World War II,

Rodney Kramer, a 97-year-old veteran of World War II,

Rodney Kramer, a 97-year-old veteran of World War II, visits Fort Bragg, N.C., for the first time in 70 years, Aug. 4, 2015. Kramer served as an artilleryman assigned to the 456th Battalion, 82nd Airborne Divis... More

D-Day survivor donates mementos to 82nd Airborne Division Museum

D-Day survivor donates mementos to 82nd Airborne Division Museum

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John W. Nicholson, Jr., left, the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division accepts historical documents on behalf of the 82nd Airborne Division Museum from Maurice Renaud during a ce... More

Female paratrooper tells her story

Female paratrooper tells her story

Spc. Diana Anderson, a combat medic in 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, and a native of Kenya, describes her long journey of overcoming racism and abuse abroad to joining the Army t... More

A color guard composed of paratroopers from the 503rd

A color guard composed of paratroopers from the 503rd

A color guard composed of paratroopers from the 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne), 16th Military Police Brigade, post the national and state colors during a naturalization ceremony aboard the USS North Carolina.

A paratrooper assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion,

A paratrooper assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion,

A paratrooper assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division provides security as his fellow paratroopers conduct building clearing proc... More

Sgt. 1st Class James Brasher is awarded a Silver Star

Sgt. 1st Class James Brasher is awarded a Silver Star

Sgt. 1st Class James Brasher is awarded a Silver Star by Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti on Oct. 9, 2008, at the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum on Fort Bragg. Brasher was given the award for his cou... More

Sgt. 1st Class William Wendt from the 82nd Airborne's

Sgt. 1st Class William Wendt from the 82nd Airborne's

Sgt. 1st Class William Wendt from the 82nd Airborne's 18th Fires Brigade gathers his parachute after a successful jump onto Fort Bragg's Sicily Drop Zone, July 14.

Spc. Blake Parsons, a member of 2nd Battalion, 319th

Spc. Blake Parsons, a member of 2nd Battalion, 319th

Spc. Blake Parsons, a member of 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment's combat lasing team, peers through the grating of the turret in his combat vehicle during the 2nd Brigade Combat Team's jo... More

Command Sgt. Maj. Brian Meyers peers at the assembling

Command Sgt. Maj. Brian Meyers peers at the assembling

Command Sgt. Maj. Brian Meyers peers at the assembling paratroopers before his change of responsibility ceremony, Sept. 24. Meyers proudly relinquished his position as the 2nd Brigade Combat Team's senior enlis... More

Spc. Richard Farrachi, a sniper with Troop C, 1st Squadron,

Spc. Richard Farrachi, a sniper with Troop C, 1st Squadron,

Spc. Richard Farrachi, a sniper with Troop C, 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, fires a Barrett M82 .50-caliber sniper rifle during a basic sniper course bein... More

First Sgt. Mark Heyliger, a paratrooper with Company

First Sgt. Mark Heyliger, a paratrooper with Company

First Sgt. Mark Heyliger, a paratrooper with Company B, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stands before a C-17 Globemaster prior to an airborne t... More

A cannon crew with 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery

A cannon crew with 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery

A cannon crew with 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, swivels the barrel of a an M119A2 105mm howitzer to the front during a training exercise Dec. 3... More

Ruck march in the cold. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Ruck march in the cold. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

With steam rising from his back and an icicle growing on his helmet, 2nd Lt. Matthew Howe, a platoon leader with Troop A, 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, re... More

Sgt. Shamell Peterkin, B Battery, 1st Bn. 319th Field

Sgt. Shamell Peterkin, B Battery, 1st Bn. 319th Field

Sgt. Shamell Peterkin, B Battery, 1st Bn. 319th Field Artillery Regiment, checks paratroopers' helmets during prejump at Operation Toy Drop, Dec. 10.

Spc. Levi Hockersmith, 29, an infantryman with 1st

Spc. Levi Hockersmith, 29, an infantryman with 1st

Spc. Levi Hockersmith, 29, an infantryman with 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, is awared the Purple Heart by Col. Timothy McAteer, commander, 2BCT, during a ceremony he... More

PT in a downpour, 82nd airborne division

PT in a downpour, 82nd airborne division

Sgt. 1st Class Eric Lloyd, a paratrooper with 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, grades the sit-up event of an Army Physical Fitness Test during e... More

Spc. Josh Estrello and Staff Sgt. Robert Novak stand

Spc. Josh Estrello and Staff Sgt. Robert Novak stand

Spc. Josh Estrello and Staff Sgt. Robert Novak stand ready to sling-load an M119A2 105 mm howitzer to an approaching UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter during an air assault training mission conducted by the 82nd Air... More

Paratroopers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne

Paratroopers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne

Paratroopers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, exit an Air Force C-117 during a Joint Operations Access Exercise on Fort Bragg, Feb. 15. Over 1,700 Paratroopers jumped into Sicily Drop Zone ... More

Catching a quick nap, talking on cell phones, reading

Catching a quick nap, talking on cell phones, reading

Catching a quick nap, talking on cell phones, reading a book, or listening to music, paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, wait for an aircraft at Pope Army Air Airfield, to tak... More

A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st

A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st

A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team prepares to lead other soldiers into another room of a farmhouse they are clearing of insurgent players April 27, 2011 during a two-week p... More

Motivation, All-American Style. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Motivation, All-American Style. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Command Sgt. Maj. Joey Love, right, of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division of Fort Bragg, N.C., illustrates the finer points of marching in formation to All-American paratroopers during the Divi... More

Paratroopers from the 18th Fires Brigade (Airborne)

Paratroopers from the 18th Fires Brigade (Airborne)

Paratroopers from the 18th Fires Brigade (Airborne) prepare for a jump, Sept. 9, on Pope Army Airfield, N.C. Once all paratroopers have donned their equipment they will be inspected by a jumpmaster to insure th... More

A soldier throws a dummy hand grenade during Expert

A soldier throws a dummy hand grenade during Expert

A soldier throws a dummy hand grenade during Expert Field Medical Badge testing, Sept. 22, 2011, at Fort Brag, N.C. Properly clearing an obstacle using a hand grenade is one of 42 tasks confronted by EFMB candidates.

Paratroopers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne

Paratroopers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne

Paratroopers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, file by the ramp to receive their parachute and reserve during and in-flight rigging exercise aboard an Air Force C-17 Globemaster, Nov. 23.

Command Sgt. Maj. Earl Rice, outgoing senior enlisted

Command Sgt. Maj. Earl Rice, outgoing senior enlisted

Command Sgt. Maj. Earl Rice, outgoing senior enlisted adviser, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, gathers up his parachute after his last jump with the corps at Sicily Drop Zone here Feb. 7. Rice is schedule... More

5th Squadron, 73rd Airborne Cavalry Regiment, mortarmen drill for mortar gunner exam

5th Squadron, 73rd Airborne Cavalry Regiment, mortarmen drill for mort...

Spc. Steven Oser, a mortarman with Troop A, 5th Squadron, 73rd Airborne Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, sets up a 120 mm mortar system, March 6, 2012, as he and other paratroopers prepare for the mor... More

A paratrooper, assigned to 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne

A paratrooper, assigned to 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne

A paratrooper, assigned to 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, places a military radio into operation during the defense lane of the Expert Infantry... More

Staff Sgt. Ryne Chambers rigs a weapons case for an

Staff Sgt. Ryne Chambers rigs a weapons case for an

Staff Sgt. Ryne Chambers rigs a weapons case for an airborne operation during the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division's Jumpmaster of the Year Competition, March 28. The winners of the battalion-lev... More

Pfc. Michael Galloway, an infantryman assigned to A

Pfc. Michael Galloway, an infantryman assigned to A

Pfc. Michael Galloway, an infantryman assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, fires his M4 carbine through a doorway during the S... More

Paratroopers compete for Jumpmaster of the Year

Paratroopers compete for Jumpmaster of the Year

Non-commissioned officers that exemplify the highest proficient in the art of airborne operations compete once a year for the coveted honor of being named as the 82nd Airborne Division’s Jumpmaster of the Year.... More

Spc. Jason Martin, a medic, wraps a casualty's shoulder

Spc. Jason Martin, a medic, wraps a casualty's shoulder

Spc. Jason Martin, a medic, wraps a casualty's shoulder during a casualty evacuation exercise, April 19. During the event, a group of paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division... More

An Army paratrooper assumes a proper landing attitude

An Army paratrooper assumes a proper landing attitude

An Army paratrooper assumes a proper landing attitude by holding the parachute risers firmly against his chest, April 30, 2012 in Fort Bragg, N.C. The paratrooper, assigned to the XVIII Airborne Corps, jumped w... More

Paratroopers of 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion,

Paratroopers of 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion,

Paratroopers of 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conducted a proficiency parachute jump with combat equipment onto Normandy Drop Zone, May 1, 2012. 3rd Bri... More

A German jumpmaster inspects the static line of an

A German jumpmaster inspects the static line of an

A German jumpmaster inspects the static line of an American paratrooper assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, during sustained airborne training at Green Ramp on Pope Air Force Base, ... More

Two paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat

Two paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat

Two paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stand guard during a silent candle light vigil ceremony that lasted 12 hours through the night of May 22. The service was to hon... More

Paratroopers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd

Paratroopers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd

Paratroopers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, participated in a motorcycle safety ride on May 22. The 126 bikers throughout the Brigade attended a safety course before moving out for... More

Staff Sgt. Edward Price, left, encourages his wife,

Staff Sgt. Edward Price, left, encourages his wife,

Staff Sgt. Edward Price, left, encourages his wife, Jennifer, while she does pushups as part of G.I. Jane Day on May 23. The event gave the wives of paratroopers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infant... More

A visitor from Fayetteville, N.C., is looking through

A visitor from Fayetteville, N.C., is looking through

A visitor from Fayetteville, N.C., is looking through the sights of the Army M2 .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a military vehicle with the assistance of a Paratrooper assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team... More

Paratroopers help each other don their parachutes prior

Paratroopers help each other don their parachutes prior

Paratroopers help each other don their parachutes prior to a Joint Operational Access Demonstration, June 4. Just before nightfall, heavy equipment and vehicles parachuted onto Sicily Drop Zone, closely followe... More

Lt. Alysia Franco is a platoon leader assigned to C

Lt. Alysia Franco is a platoon leader assigned to C

Lt. Alysia Franco is a platoon leader assigned to C Company, 407th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, raising her 2-year-old son while her husband is stationed overseas,... More

Command Sgt. Maj. Butler Kendrick, incoming command

Command Sgt. Maj. Butler Kendrick, incoming command

Command Sgt. Maj. Butler Kendrick, incoming command sergeant major of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, speaks to family, friends, and peers at his change of responsibility ceremony on June 28, 2... More

A paratrooper 24/7: Red Falcon pulls woman from burning vehicle during leave

A paratrooper 24/7: Red Falcon pulls woman from burning vehicle during...

Pfc. Mike D. Parmelee, a paratrooper assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, stands for a photo after being interviewed about saving a woman from a burnin... More

The 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment,

The 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment,

The 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, participated in Molly Pitcher Day on Sicily Drop Zone July 6. Hundreds of paratroopers, families, fri... More

Paratrooper earns citizenship during White House ceremony

Paratrooper earns citizenship during White House ceremony

Pfc. Jhonathan Zapata, an infantryman assigned to C Company, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, became a U.S. citizen during a naturalization cerem... More

A paratrooper watches as a UH-60 Black Hawk passes

A paratrooper watches as a UH-60 Black Hawk passes

A paratrooper watches as a UH-60 Black Hawk passes overhead towing a humvee. Paratroopers assigned to 407th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, partnered with members of ... More

Three “patients” are secured in their litters inside

Three “patients” are secured in their litters inside

Three “patients” are secured in their litters inside a C-130 Hercules, Aug. 15, as part of patient loading procedures training on Pope Army Airfield, Aug. 14. From Aug. 14-15, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airb... More

A paratrooper takes a knee and pulls security in a

A paratrooper takes a knee and pulls security in a

A paratrooper takes a knee and pulls security in a doorway of a mock village on Aug. 23 during the Brigade’s week-long field training exercise. Soldiers assigned to C Company, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infa... More

Staff Sgt. Travis Musquiz (left) inspects the charges

Staff Sgt. Travis Musquiz (left) inspects the charges

Staff Sgt. Travis Musquiz (left) inspects the charges in a 105mm round for accuracy while Pvt. Allen Pettigrew (right) holds the 105 mm round, before it is loaded into the Howitzer during a live fire training e... More

Smoke rolls out of an expended artillery round as Sgt.

Smoke rolls out of an expended artillery round as Sgt.

Smoke rolls out of an expended artillery round as Sgt. Flint Elsik extracts the shell from a Howitzer during a live fire training exercise, Aug. 24. Paratroopers assigned to B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airb... More

A child sits in the front passenger seat of a military

A child sits in the front passenger seat of a military

A child sits in the front passenger seat of a military Humvee to get a soldier’s view from the inside of the vehicle during a demonstration by Paratroopers at KinderCare day care center in Fayetteville, N.C., S... More

A paratrooper with 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne

A paratrooper with 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne

A paratrooper with 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division reunites with his child after returning home Sept. 8, 2012 from his six month deployment to Afghanistan.

Sgt. Jesus Fernandez, a forward observer assigned to

Sgt. Jesus Fernandez, a forward observer assigned to

Sgt. Jesus Fernandez, a forward observer assigned to 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, walks along a trail during the land navigation portion of t... More

Sgt. 1st Class Walter Veazey from the Advanced Airborne

Sgt. 1st Class Walter Veazey from the Advanced Airborne

Sgt. 1st Class Walter Veazey from the Advanced Airborne School talks to Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Ashton B. Carter about parachute rigging procedures as Sgt. Eric Primeau from Bravo Battery, 1-321st Airbo... More

Spc. Jose Ramos (center) races a fellow paratrooper

Spc. Jose Ramos (center) races a fellow paratrooper

Spc. Jose Ramos (center) races a fellow paratrooper for the finish line of a 12-mile ruck march during Pre-Ranger Course, Nov 30. Ramos is an infantryman assigned to Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 325th A... More

Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal sits

Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal sits

Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal sits down for an interview with Reginald Roggers, assistant editor of the Paraglide, about the state of the Army, Dec. 4, 2012, at Fort Bragg, N.C. The purpose of ... More

A U.S. Army paratrooper lands after jumping from an

A U.S. Army paratrooper lands after jumping from an

A U.S. Army paratrooper lands after jumping from an aircraft during Operation Toy Drop 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 8, 2012. Soldiers donated new toys in exchange for the opportunity to jump with a foreign ju... More

82nd Combat Aviation Brigade Executive Officer Maj.

82nd Combat Aviation Brigade Executive Officer Maj.

82nd Combat Aviation Brigade Executive Officer Maj. Kenric Smith presents the colors during the brigade change of command ceremony on Pike Field, Dec. 13. Col. T.J. Jamison, 82nd CAB commander, relinquished com... More

Morgan McCann, a sophomore and outfielder for the University

Morgan McCann, a sophomore and outfielder for the University

Morgan McCann, a sophomore and outfielder for the University of North Carolina - Wilmington softball team, scales a wooden plank to reach an 8-foot platform on the leaders reaction course on Fort Bragg, N.C., J... More

Brett Cumming, pit crew coach for the Earnhardt Ganassi

Brett Cumming, pit crew coach for the Earnhardt Ganassi

Brett Cumming, pit crew coach for the Earnhardt Ganassi McDonalds 1 Car, speaks to U.S. Soldiers about the teamwork required to be a member of a NASCAR Pit Crew at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 17, 2013. Cumming and h... More

Fort Bragg's Iron Mike Statue. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Fort Bragg's Iron Mike Statue. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Fort Bragg’s The Airborne Trooper is the newest Iron Mike statue. Known as the "Home of the Airborne," Fort Bragg hosts the 82nd Airborne Division, as well as the XVIII Airborne Corps. Sculpted by Leah Heibert ... More

U.S. Army Spc. Courtney Collier, a light wheeled vehicle

U.S. Army Spc. Courtney Collier, a light wheeled vehicle

U.S. Army Spc. Courtney Collier, a light wheeled vehicle mechanic assigned to Headquarters Company, Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, replaces parts in a High Mo... More

U.S. Airmen assigned to 820th Red Horse squadron from

U.S. Airmen assigned to 820th Red Horse squadron from

U.S. Airmen assigned to 820th Red Horse squadron from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., practice parachute landing falls under the eyes of a jumpmaster prior to an airborne operation Feb. 23, 2013, at Fort Bragg, N.... More

XVIII Corps reenlistment. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

XVIII Corps reenlistment. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Spc. William Easterly and Spc. Jason Crigger, mechanics from Headquarters Support Company, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, raise their right hands to reenlist, in a gas chamber, M... More

A Humvee belonging to 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne

A Humvee belonging to 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne

A Humvee belonging to 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, drops from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster over Normandy Drop Zone for an airborn... More

Maj. Terrell Jones, the 82nd Airborne Division family

Maj. Terrell Jones, the 82nd Airborne Division family

Maj. Terrell Jones, the 82nd Airborne Division family life chaplain, stocks the shelves of the Paratrooper Assistance Pantry, April 22. Organized by the division chaplains, the pantry is a support system for Pa... More

Mechanic relies on training to save fellow paratrooper

Mechanic relies on training to save fellow paratrooper

U.S. Army Sgt. James Hayes, a mechanic with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stands in front of a Heavy Equipment Mobility Tactical Truck Wrecker, that he uses to recover vehicles for 3rd Sq... More

Spc. Tania Calderon-Griek, from the 82nd Airborne Division

Spc. Tania Calderon-Griek, from the 82nd Airborne Division

Spc. Tania Calderon-Griek, from the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, tries to pull her opponent into an arm bar, which if successful would force him into submission during a train... More

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division look over the course map for the 10-mile race, in the registration tent, at Fort Bragg, N.C., May 21, 2013. Tens of thousands of paratroopers participated in... More

Paratrooper competes in her first 10-miler

Paratrooper competes in her first 10-miler

More than 400 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg participate in a 10-mile race, May 21. Every year, tens of thousands of paratroopers honor the long prestigious history of the 82nd Airbo... More

Maurice Renaud, the guest speaker of the All American

Maurice Renaud, the guest speaker of the All American

Maurice Renaud, the guest speaker of the All American Week memorial ceremony, reads a letter written by his father at the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum on Fort Bragg, N.C., May 22, 2014. Renaud’s f... More

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division discuss the specifications of the M119 Howitzer with a veteran during a static display demonstration, May 23, 2013 at Fort Bragg, N.C. The display was part o... More

An infantryman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 325th

An infantryman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 325th

An infantryman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division clears his gas mask during a simulated gas attack while clearing a training objective at Fo... More

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Luis Irizarry, left, an ammunition

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Luis Irizarry, left, an ammunition

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Luis Irizarry, left, an ammunition specialist, and Staff Sgt. Juan Armendariz, a transportation management coordinator, both assigned to the 528th Sustainment Brigade, U.S. Army Special... More

Artillery paratroopers talk readiness, resiliency

Artillery paratroopers talk readiness, resiliency

Spc. Ryan J. Caouette, an airborne artilleryman with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, and fellow paratroopers emplace a M119A3 105 mm lightweight howitzer, July 30, at Fort Bragg, N.C., dur... More

Sarah Brown and Dr. Glen Wurglitz, "Soldier 360"

Sarah Brown and Dr. Glen Wurglitz, "Soldier 360"

Sarah Brown and Dr. Glen Wurglitz, "Soldier 360" instructors, demonstrate ways to communicate during a class on couple's communication. The course teaches leaders skills that incorporate personal, and family re... More

U.S. Army Sgt. David Sullivan, a paratrooper with the

U.S. Army Sgt. David Sullivan, a paratrooper with the

U.S. Army Sgt. David Sullivan, a paratrooper with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, signals to the pilots their helicopter is refueled at Simmons Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 14, 201... More

Capt. Jeff Bryan, chaplain for the 188th Brigade Support

Capt. Jeff Bryan, chaplain for the 188th Brigade Support

Capt. Jeff Bryan, chaplain for the 188th Brigade Support Battalion, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division gives paratroopers a prayer before their Airborne Operation Aug. 21. Bryan, has eleven jumps in his career.

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team climb ropes, Aug. 26, during the obstacle course phase of the Towle/Megellas Competition on Fort Bragg, N.C. The four-day contest, held to ... More

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Clayton M. Hutmacher, the commanding

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Clayton M. Hutmacher, the commanding

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Clayton M. Hutmacher, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command passes the unit colors to Chief Warrant Officer 5 Curtis P. Adams, right, the incoming comm... More

Sgt. Matthew Tullis, a combat engineer assigned to

Sgt. Matthew Tullis, a combat engineer assigned to

Sgt. Matthew Tullis, a combat engineer assigned to A Company, Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, competes in his company’s sapper stakes competition on Fort Bragg... More

World War II-era ‘Devil in Baggy Pants’ visits paratroopers

World War II-era ‘Devil in Baggy Pants’ visits paratroopers

George Mahon, a World War II veteran who served with Company E, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment—now the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team—visits with paratroopers from Company C, 2nd Battalion,... More

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team walk to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, Sept. 27, at Camp Mackall on Fort Bragg, N.C., in preparation for a cultural exchange jump with jumpmas... More

Paratrooper remains resilient through spouse's deployment

Paratrooper remains resilient through spouse's deployment

Spc. Flavia Veiga, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, holds her phone to display a photo of her and her husband, Staff Sgt. Sanel Klebic, a supply sergeant with the 20th En... More

The Spur Ride and a man's best friend

The Spur Ride and a man's best friend

Capt. Michael Mobbs, commander of Charlie Troop, 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, and his dog, Scooter, stand tall during a spur ride ceremony, Nov. 7, at Fo... More

Colonial re-enactors march down Hay Street in the

Colonial re-enactors march down Hay Street in the

Colonial re-enactors march down Hay Street in the Fayetteville Veterans Day Parade, Nov. 9, 2013. The parade featured soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve Command headquarters, the 82nd Airborne Division, high s... More

Staff Sgt. Craig Miller and his daughter, Kaelin, build

Staff Sgt. Craig Miller and his daughter, Kaelin, build

Staff Sgt. Craig Miller and his daughter, Kaelin, build a picture frame in the crafts area of the Father-Daughter Dance on Nov. 22, 2013.

Spc. Michael D. Parmelee, an infantryman assigned to

Spc. Michael D. Parmelee, an infantryman assigned to

Spc. Michael D. Parmelee, an infantryman assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, sits among senior officers and noncommissioned officers during a Soldier's Medal award ceremony on Fort ... More

Thirty-three Gun Devils reenlist to stay Army

Thirty-three Gun Devils reenlist to stay Army

Brig. Gen. Brian McKiernan, deputy commanding general – support for the 82nd Airborne Division, recites the oath of enlistment to 33 paratroopers with 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 1st... More

Devil brigade paratroopers win FORSCOM 46th Annual Philip A. Connelly award

Devil brigade paratroopers win FORSCOM 46th Annual Philip A. Connelly ...

Brig. Gen. Kevin G. O’Connell, deputy chief of staff, G-4, for U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM), presents a plaque to Lt. Col. Gary A. Hoffman, commander of 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat... More

Sgt. 1st Class Michael Griffin, with the special operations

Sgt. 1st Class Michael Griffin, with the special operations

Sgt. 1st Class Michael Griffin, with the special operations testing director, supervises an allied soldier during a simulation exercise. Jumpmasters and soldiers from nine different countries joined U.S. jumpma... More

Paratroopers wait in line with their toys during the

Paratroopers wait in line with their toys during the

Paratroopers wait in line with their toys during the 16th Annual Randy Oler Operation Toy Drop lottery, Dec. 6, at Pope Field, N.C. There were more than 500 parachutes up for the lottery. They will join 4,000 o... More

Sicily Drop Zone is buzzing in the early hours during

Sicily Drop Zone is buzzing in the early hours during

Sicily Drop Zone is buzzing in the early hours during Operation Toy Drop, Dec. 7, as soldiers, families and others wait for paratroopers to jump from a C-130. Hosted by the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychologic... More

Paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry

Paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry

Paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stand tall, Dec. 11, during their unit activation ceremony on Fort Bragg, N.C. Formerly 4th S... More

Dutch and American paratroopers joined forces for airborne

Dutch and American paratroopers joined forces for airborne

Dutch and American paratroopers joined forces for airborne operations on Sicily Drop Zone, Jan. 9. A total of 220 soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, and the Royal Netherlands Arm... More

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