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Sep 18, 2024 · On reaching the railway line, there was a short pause while the company reorganized before moving in the direction of Arnhem, still with 9 Platoon in the lead. At several points along the way, the company encountered German machine guns, firing on fixed lines down the track.
2 days ago · The 82nd Airborne Division consists of a division headquarters and headquarters battalion, three infantry brigade combat teams, a division artillery, a combat aviation brigade, and a division sustainment brigade.
15 hours ago · In the late 1970s, the division maintained one battalion on a rotating basis as the division ready force (DRF). The force was in place to respond to alerts for action anywhere in the world. After alert notification, troopers of the "hot" platoon/company, would be airborne, "wheels-up" within 30 minutes as the first responding unit.
3 days ago · Devrie was as an ordnance shop officer supervising 200-plus soldiers. Major Casey (Weliver) Kilpatrick ’12, Delanie’s sister, is assigned to a Mission Command Test Directorate with the U.S. Army Reserve’s 87th Training Division. Caleigh Weliver ’14, another sister, commanded the 602nd Area Support Medical Company at Fort Liberty.
1 day ago · Unit 731 was a clandestine division of Japan's Kwantung Army based in Manchuria during World War II. Led by Lieutenant General Shirō Ishii, the organization dedicated to the advancement of biological weaponry within the imperial army was commonly referred to as the Ishii Network. [17]
6 days ago · The combat commander then sent a platoon of infantry to "D" Company and ordered an attack on Rheinberg from the southwest. Receiving fire from anti-tank guns, small arms, mortars and artillery, the company nevertheless moved forward and after the third assault, three tanks, later knocked out, entered Rheinberg.
4 days ago · First Lt. Riley Jones, platoon leader with C Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd BCT, platoon leader, said he is optimistic about his team's abilities to operate in an alpine ...
