101st Airborne Division
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101st Airborne Division 75th Anniversary video (long version)
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Brigade Air Assault • 101 Airborne Division
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82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions
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"American Eagles" | 82nd AND 101st Airborne Division
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101st Airborne Division's readiness is under question
The 101st Airborne Division is an elite modular specialized light infantry division of the US Army. Trained for air assault operations, it has been referred to as "the tip of the spear." It is the most potent and tactically mobile of the U.S. Army's divisions. The 101st Airborne is able to plan, coordinate, and execute brigade-size air assault operations capable of seizing key terrain in support of operational objectives, and is capable of working in austere environments with limited or degraded infrastructure. These particular operations are conducted by highly mobile teams covering extensive distances and engaging enemy forces behind enemy lines. Its unique battlefield mobility and high level of training have kept it in the vanguard of US land combat forces in recent conflicts. More recently, the 101st Airborne has been performing foreign internal defense and counterterrorism operations within Iraq and Afghanistan.
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World War I and interwar period
World War II to Present Day
D-Day
Drop Zone Able
Drop Zone Charlie
Drop Zone Dog
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Operation Market Garden
Battle of the Bulge
Liberation of Kaufering
Composition
Post-War
Helmet insignia
Postwar training and Pentomic reactivation
Civil rights
STRAC
Vietnam War
Tiger Force
Lam Son 719
Post-Vietnam
Air Assault Operations
Organization 1989
Persian Gulf War
Humanitarian aid
Montana forest fires
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
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2010 Afghanistan
2011 Afghanistan
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5th Special Forces Group
2016 Iraq
Operation Freedom's Sentinel
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In popular culture