Tag: 82nd Airborne

82nd Airborne Responds to Neo-Nazi Wearing Their Hat

| August 17, 2017

Leave it to an idiot neo-Nazi to wear an 82nd Airborne hat to the recent protest in Charlottesville:

The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II. So after a man in a hat bearing the elite Army paratrooper unit’s insignia was pictured throwing a Ku Klux Klan salute (which resembles and is sometimes mistaken for a Nazi salute) during the weekend’s Charlottesville protests, the division delivered a pointed message.   [Yahoo News]

You can read more at the link, but some people actually thought this idiot was in the 82nd Airborne.  Here is the 82nd’s Twitter response to this guy wearing an 82nd Airborne hat:

Note to all racists out there, if you are going to spew your hatred don’t drag the US military into it by wearing its gear. If anything these racists should dislike the US military considering how it is in my opinion the most merit based organization in the US where someone of any race through performance can rise to the top.

82nd Airborne Soldiers To Deploy to South Korea This Summer

| March 22, 2016

It looks like South Korea is going to see some troops wearing the 82nd Airborne patch starting this summer:

About 400 U.S. troops will deploy to South Korea later this summer to help deter North Korean aggression, the Department of the Army announced Sunday.

The troops with the 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division will make a rotational deployment to the Asian ally, the department said in a statement.

“Our Soldiers and units are skilled, tough and stand ready around the clock to defend America. They are ready … to deter North Korean aggression,” Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps, said in the statement.

Col. Erik Gilbert, commander of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, said that the squadron is an “exceptionally well-led and highly trained unit with very talented and adaptable troopers, which represent both the last and also the very best of the U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior Squadrons.”

“I know they are ready for any contingency and am confident they will be a superb addition to U.S. Forces assigned to the defense of South Korea, particularly at this time of heightened tensions,” he said.   [Yonhap]