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......
Story by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 08.09.2013
More than 40 paratroopers of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conducted a battalion breachers course, on Fort Bragg, N.C., July 29 through Aug. 9....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 08.01.2013
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – More than 40 Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, deployed to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, July 14, to participate in Exercise Shared Accord 2013....
Story by Staff Sgt. Dillon Heyliger | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 06.14.2013
Paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division go through Expert Infantryman Badge testing lanes at Fort Bragg, NC....
Story by Sgt. Matthew Ryan | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 06.28.2012
A paratrooper helped save two civilians from a burning vehicle, June 19, around 1:30 p.m. in Beaverton, Ore., when a semi-truck struck the paratroopers vehicle before hitting another car causing it to catch fire....
Story by Sgt. Kissta DiGregorio | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 04.14.2012
A team of paratroopers toting a litter sprinted to the aid of four casualties trapped inside a Humvee. They each rushed to a door and pulled their comrades from the vehicle. The Troopers loaded the wounded onto the litter and carried them to safety, one-by-one. With the enemy less than 100 meters away, the team took cover and engaged their adversaries from rooftops, doorways and around......
Story by Sgt. Matthew Ryan | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 03.30.2012
“It is part of a brotherhood that paratroopers in the infantry have to earn,” said 1st Sgt. Daymond Graves, company first sergeant, A Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. The road to earning the Expert Infantryman Badge is a true test of an infantryman’s skill and mastery of his environment, he said....
Story by Sgt. Kissta DiGregorio | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 10.30.2011
Once known as a breeding ground for insurgents, terrorized by frequent bombings and assassinations, the Anbar province is now considered a shining example of the power of partnership. The cooperation between American Forces and the government of Iraq over the last five years has strengthened the area in many ways, the most prominent being in the capabilities and competence of the Iraqi......
