82nd Airborne Division

82nd Airborne Division
82nd Airborne Division
	Insignia of the 82nd Airborne Division
Active	1917–1919; 1921–present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army
Type	Airborne light infantry
Role	Airborne assault
Size	Division
Part of	XVIII Airborne Corps
Garrison/HQ	Fort Bragg, North Carolina, US
Nicknames	"America's Guard of Honor"; "All American Division"; "82nd Division"; "Eighty Deuce"; "The 82nd"
Mottos	"All The Way!"; “Death from Above”
Color of berets	Maroon
March	"The All-American Soldier"
Engagements	World War I European theatre Western Front Hundred Days Offensive Battle of Saint-Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne Offensive; ; ; ; ; World War II Mediterranean and Middle East theatre Italian campaign Operation Husky Battle of Gela; Battle of Biazza Ridge; ; Operation Avalanche Battle of Salerno; Battle of Altavilla; Battle of Chiunzi Pass; ; Volturno Line; Volturno River; Barbara Line; Winter Line Bernhardt Line; Battle of Anzio; ; ; ; European theatre Western Front Liberation of France Operation Overlord Operation Neptune American airborne landings in Normandy Mission Boston; Mission Detroit; Mission Elmira; Battle of Sainte-Mère-Église; Battle of La Fière; ; ; ; ; Liberation of the Netherlands Operation Market Garden Battle of Nijmegen Waal River Crossing; ; Battle of Groesbeek Heights; ; Battle of the Nijmegen salient; ; Liberation of Belgium Battle of the Bulge Battle of Werbomont; Battle of Cheneux; Battle of Trois-Ponts; ; ; Western Allied invasion of Germany Battle of the Hürtgen Forest Battle of Schmidt (1945); ; ; ; ; ; Cold War Dominican Civil War; Civil rights movement Ghetto riots (1964–1969) Long, hot summer of 1967 1967 Detroit riot; ; ; ; Indochina wars Vietnam War Tet Offensive; Operation Carentan; Operation Delaware; Operation Nevada Eagle; ; ; Invasion of Grenada; Central American crisis Nicaraguan Revolution Operation Golden Pheasant; ; Invasion of Panama Raid at Renacer Prison; ; ; Arab Cold War Gulf War; ; ; Post–Cold War era Operation Uphold Democracy; Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution Cuban post-revolution exodus 1994 Cuban rafter crisis Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage; ; ; ; Yugoslav Wars Operation Joint Endeavor; Kosovo War NATO bombing of Yugoslavia; ; ; Global War on Terrorism Afghan conflict War in Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom United States invasion of Afghanistan; ; Operation Freedom's Sentinel 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan 2021 Kabul airlift; ; ; ; ; Iraq War 2003 invasion of Iraq; Iraqi civil war Battle of Turki; ; ; Operation Inherent Resolve War in Iraq; Syrian civil war; ; ; Humanitarian response by national governments to the 2010 Haiti earthquake Operation Unified Response; ; ;
Decorations	Meritorious Unit Commendation
Website	Official Website of the Division
Commanders
Commander	MG Brandon R. Tegtmeier
Deputy Commanding General – Operations	BG Andrew Kiser
Deputy Commanding General – Support	BG Bryan Babich
Deputy Commanding General – Plans	Brigadier Henry Llewelyn-Usher, British Army
Command Sergeant Major	CSM James “JB” Bradshaw
Notable; commanders	Complete list of commanders
Insignia
Shoulder sleeve insignia (subdued)
Combat service identification badge
Flag
Seal

The 82nd Airborne Division ("All American") is a United States Army airborne infantry division, that specializes in parachute assault, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Currently, the division is commanded by Major General Brandon Tegtmeier.

It was first officially activated at Camp Gordon, in Georgia on 25 August 1917, though, it would later be demobilized on 27 May 1919, at Camp Mills, New York. During the summer of 1921, it would be reconstituted, placed into the Organized Reserves, as Headquarters, 82nd Division, and it would later be transferred to the Federal Building at Columbia, South Carolina. The 82nd Infantry Division was the second United States Army infantry-combat division of eight to deploy and return in England, and fight in France. The 82nd Infantry Division served with distinction on the Western Front in the final months of World War I. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for its "AA" (pictured), on the shoulder patch. The Division took part in the Battle of Lorraine 1918, and the campaigns of St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne 1918.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 the 82nd Airborne Division would see combat with the command of United States Army General Omar Bradley who later on 15 August 1942, reconstituted the 82nd as the first airborne division of the US Army and fought in numerous campaigns during the war.