Your Next Mission® Season #3 EP 23 | 82nd Airborne Division

MG Christopher C. LaNeve and CSM David R. Pitt, Command Team for the famed 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, sit down with SMA Tilley for an inside look into one of the U.S. Army’s most storied divisions. The conversation offers insight into the “All-American” division’s specialization of airborne operations and capability of deploying within 18 hours of notification in support of U.S. national interest.

The mission of the 82nd Airborne Division is to, within 18 hours of notification, strategically deploy, conduct forcible entry parachute assault and secure key objectives for follow-on military operations in support of U.S. national interests.

The 82nd Airborne Division is an active airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in joint forcible entry operations. Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is the primary fighting arm of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Division was constituted in the National Army on August 5th, 1917, and was organized on August 25th, 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the unit acquired the nickname "All American," which is the basis for its famed “AA” shoulder patch.

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