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101st And 82nd Airborne Division Soldiers Deploying to Eastern Europe

by mosesman
Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and 1st Armored Division conduct Fast Rope Insertion and Extraction System training at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air base in Romania, Nov. 10, 2022. (Sgt. Nicholas Goodman/U.S. Army).
  • 101st And 82nd Airborne Division Soldiers Deploying to Eastern Europe
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    The US military’s force posture in Europe will remain the same.
    On Wednesday the Army announced that about 3,400 soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team will head to Eastern Europe this fall, as will 200 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters.
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    The units will deploy primarily to Romania as well in Southeastern Europe and to the continent’s “High North” region that includes Scandinavian countries, Army officials said. Among the 101st troops are infantry units from the division’s stories 187th Infantry Regiment, known as the Rakkasans.
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    “We look forward to the return of the 82nd Airborne Division to the continent, and to the Rakkasan’s next ‘rendezvous with destiny,’ which follows the back-to-back deployments of their storied division’s two other infantry brigade combat teams,” Army Col. Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for U.S. Army Europe, said in a statement.
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