And at one point General Biamby came in and told General Cédras that he had just gotten word on his telephone that the airplanes had taken off from Pope Air Force Base, with soldiers from Fort Bragg, and that both disconcerted them and caused them to be suspicious of the intent of the negotiations, but it also created a situation where immediately after that, the key points they had been refusing to agree to were agreed to, a date certain, other matters that I won't go into in detail here.

Only after engineers of the 1st Armored Division bridged the Sava River on 31 December 1995 without hostilities did the 82d begin to draw down against plans for a possible airborne operation there. The 1-508 PIR served in Regional Command-South.

General Engineering support in the area of camp establishment/improvement operations was provided by the Sappers of the habitually associated Task Force Panther Engineer platoon, 2/C-307th.

MACV, desperate for additional manpower, wanted the division to deploy to Vietnam, and the Department of the Army, wishing to retain its "sole readily deployable strategic reserve, the last real vestige of actual Army divisional combat potency in the United States left to the Pentagon," compromised by sending the 3d Brigade. They were joined by the 62nd Volksgrenadier Division. The next day attempts to take Nijmegen Highway Bridge failed. The early days of the 82nd Airborne's participation in the deployment were chronicled by embedded journalist Karl Zinsmeister in his 2003 book Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq.

[89] Supporting the division were the 36th Engineer Brigade, and the 43d Area Support Group.

The initial assault on Sicily, by the 505th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, under Colonel Gavin, was the first regimental-sized combat parachute assault conducted by the United States Army.

A time of tragedy; a special report. Fighting off German counterattacks, the division captured its objectives between Grave, and Nijmegen. Zhari district in southern Kandahar is where Dadullah was recruiting a high number of jihadists. Dispersed throughout the country, 1st battalion was attached to various Special Operations elements.

[citation needed], On 12 December 1994, the 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 505th Infantry, with the 2nd Platoon of Company C, 307th Engineer Battalion, deployed as part of Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage. [citation needed], In December 2004, the task forces based on 2-325th AIR and 3-325th AIR deployed to Iraq to provide a safe and secure environment for the country's first-ever free national elections.

56–58. [citation needed], As of April 2012, the 1st BCT was deployed to Afghanistan, operating in Ghazni Province, Regional Command-East.

In the afternoon of Wednesday 20 September 1944, the 82nd Airborne Division conducted a successfully opposed river assault on the river crossing of the Waal river. Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 21, "3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division", "U.S.A. Airborne: 50th Anniversary, 1940-1990", "Field Artillery - Army Lineage Series - Part 2", "1st Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Lineage", "2nd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Lineage", "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Lineage", "Reactivated unit gives 82nd Airborne an armored component that packs a Marine Corps-style punch", "3rd Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Lineage", "313th Military Intelligence Battalion Lineage", "2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment", "NEWS ANALYSIS: Bush's 'Line in the Sand' Shifts as Objectives Grow: Strategy: The initial mission was to defend Saudi Arabia.

Operation Just Cause concluded on 31 Jan 1990, just 42 days (D+42) since the invasion started.