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COL Mustard

(8,218 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2025, 10:22 AM Oct 2025

I know this is pedantic, but...gonna do it anyway.

The 82nd didn't jump in both world wars. We didn't have an Airborne force until about 1940, in time for WW2. The 82nd was a traditional Infantry Division during WW1.