Story by Erin Thompson | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 10.25.2024
On Oct. 27, 1995, a sergeant from the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, opened fire on a training field at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, killing intelligence officer Maj. Stephen M. Badger and wounding 18 others....
Story by Sgt. Eric Zedalis | 214TH Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.16.2022
FORT LEE, Va. (Mar. 16, 2022) -- Imagine your dinner meal tonight must be 850 calories or less. It must also contain a nutrient breakdown of 15-20 percent protein, 40-60 percent carbohydrates, and 20-30 percent fat. What comes to mind? Maybe you mutter to yourself: Alright, I guess I’ll bake some chicken and boil some canned vegetables. Or maybe you just shout: That’s......
Story by Sgt. Eric Zedalis | 214TH Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.16.2022
FORT LEE, Va. (Mar. 16, 2022) -- The mood is tense on the 2nd floor hallway of the Joint Culinary Center of Excellence at Fort Lee, Virginia. Staff members gingerly carry small plates of fine food. Shouts of “Corner!” as they approach wall openings to alert any passersby reverberate down the long hallway. U.S. Army culinary teams from Fort Drum and Fort Bragg had practiced, or at......
Story by Airman 1st Class Ariel Owings | Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst | 01.28.2019
White clouds curled from their mouths as they steadied their breath, waiting for the cue to fire. A voice came over the radio of the Humvee saying “ready one.” Immediately, hot bullet casings fell from the gunner station and bounced around inside the HUMVEE. Even with five layers of military-grade cold-weather gear on, the Soldiers were not used to training in the freezing winds of Joint......
Story by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 04.21.2015
Meticulously placed cards bearing symbols and acronyms lay across intersecting squares of parachute cord on the grey concrete of the pole barns. The wind drifts under the sheet metal roof, unimpeded by walls, and pushes gently on the paper markers placed all over the map that is laid out before hundreds of booted feet. One by one, officers and noncommissioned officers step onto the sand......
Story by Sgt. Eliverto Larios | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 03.09.2015
Many Olympic athletes would say it is an honor to represent their country. It’s a goal that some always dream of reaching, a dream they want to become reality. Many toil through long, strenuous hours to prepare. Some push their bodies to near breaking. They train to work as a team. Primarily, they train to take home the gold, a symbol that they are the best of the best....
Story by Sgt. Eliverto Larios | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 03.03.2015
Dressed in the joint service lightweight integrated suit technology, paratroopers from the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment and the 37th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, waited nervously. In a few minutes, they would come face to face with the real deal: live chemical agents; deadly chemical agents....
Story by Sgt. Eliverto Larios | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 02.04.2015
They began to receive telephonic alerts at 4:00 A.M. on a Tuesday morning. They spent the day packing, planning and preparing for the sudden mission only hours away. In files, they marched out of the passenger sheds on Pope Army Airfield, parachutes on their backs, rucksacks and reserves strapped in front and weapons at their sides. So weighted, hundreds of Paratroopers boarded the aircraft......
