Paratroopers assigned to 37th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conduct "blood on the water" event during the battalion’s Eagle Week on Fort Bragg, N.C. on Aug. 20, 2019. Eagle Week honors the unit’s historic mission of engineer paratroopers who were among the first to storm the beaches of Normandy during World War II’s D-Day invasion
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Aug. 28, 2018) -- Approximately 900 Paratroopers from across the 82nd Airborne Division participated in training and testing to earn the Expert Infantry Badge at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Aug. 13-31, 2018.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Aug. 13, 2017) -- Approximately 500 Paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conducted a forcible parachute entry from Fort Bragg, North Carolina into White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico Aug. 5, 2018.
Msg. Cooke, father, and Cpl. Cooke, son, conducted an airborne operation together. The airborne operation was the 100th jump for Msg. Cooke and the first jump in the 82nd Abn. Div. for Cpl. Cooke.
