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The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) provides highly trained, disciplined and fit air assault forces and serves as the only Air Assault Division in the world; capable of dicsriminate, agile, and adaptive operations to engage the enemy forces ro …
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The Screaming Eagles are one of the most deployed and recognized Divisions in the U.S. Army, with a combat record spanning from the paratroopers of World War II to the Security Force Assistance Teams deployed in Afghanistan today. Army.mil
The 101st Airborne Division was activated August 16, 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. Its first Commanding General, Major General William C. Lee, noted that the Division had no history, but that it had a “rendezvous with destiny” and that the new Division would be habitually called into action when the need was ‘immediate and extreme”. Throughout its 70-year history, the Division has amassed a proud record, in both war and peace, unmatched by any othe