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    Default XVIII Airborne Corps Commander

    LTG Frank Helmick is the new XVIII Airborne Corps Commander.

    Link: http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2009/09/02/930159

    I remember him as MAJ Helmick, battalion S-3 for 3/325 in Vicenza.
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    Default We all have our crossses to bear. Not to worry,

    Falcons need love, too...
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    BG Helmick, ADC-O, 101st ABN DIV
    Sapere Aude

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    Default Kettle, this is pot, over...

    Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
    Falcons need love, too...
    Sergeant Major, I reckon we're both a little sooty.

    A demon in baggy britches has no room to talk!
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    Default It's Beeches in Baggy

    Breeches.

    You're probably right -- we can both pick on the Puddy Tat Brigahde...

    Just to keep Tom Odom alert.

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    Default Exactly...

    ...we both know the 505 are the Division Darlings.

    And the "Oh Nine?" They never acknowledged another regiment as being...well, they never acknowledged another regiment.
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    ...we both know the 505 are the Division Darlings
    and deservedly so

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rifleman View Post
    ...we both know the 505 are the Division Darlings.
    The Dvision Darlings.....Oh yea the Gay Brigade

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    Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
    The Dvision Darlings.....Oh yea the Gay Brigade
    Obvious jealousy is so common

    And sad


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    Default Devils all the way!!!!!

    The most deployed BCT, and the most assault landing credits in its elements (check it out, A/3-319 made the jump in Vietnam), plus Panama. I don't know how the jump by B/3-504 works, since they've been deactivated.

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    Default H-minus

    Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
    You're probably right -- we can both pick on the Puddy Tat Brigahde...
    Don't hate; It's very un-becoming. Not everyone can be a panther.

    v/r

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeF View Post
    Not everyone can be a panther.
    or a cross dresser for that matter...

    Let's Go!
    "Law cannot limit what physics makes possible." Humanitarian Apsects of Airpower (papers of Frederick L. Anderson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)

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    Default What's to hate?

    Pink Panthers are cute...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
    The 505 is the Division Darlings and deservedly so
    I think we need to rename this the hater thread. I see we're getting a lot of commentary from 3-325 "Blue Falcons" where buddy is only half the word.

    And CR6, if remember correctly, that scandal back in the late 1990's over paratroopers cross-dressing came out of 1st Brigade .

    Bring It.

    Mike
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    Quote Originally Posted by 82redleg View Post
    The most deployed BCT, and the most assault landing credits in its elements (check it out, A/3-319 made the jump in Vietnam), plus Panama. I don't know how the jump by B/3-504 works, since they've been deactivated.
    I was B/2-504 didn't even have a 3/504 anything in my day.

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    Wanda, the Divsion Darling I can't help it.....I just couldn't resist.....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mR49...ACE9F5&index=7

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    Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
    I was B/2-504 didn't even have a 3/504 anything in my day.
    The brigades were "regimentalized" in '85 or '86. In 1st Brigade 2/508 became 3/504 and in 3rd Brigade 1/508 became 3/505.

    It's changed again since then. There are now four brigades of two battlions each, so 1/508 and 2/508 came back as 4th Brigade and the other brigades each lost their third battalion.

    Makes zero sense to me. I would have thought that there were always times when two battalions in a brigade were enough and always times when four were needed. Didn't three prove to be a good number to task organize up or down from for a lot of years?

    I'd be curious to know how often it's been necessary to deploy one of these new brigades with another battalion opconned to them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rifleman View Post
    The brigades were "regimentalized" in '85 or '86. In 1st Brigade 2/508 became 3/504 and in 3rd Brigade 1/508 became 3/505.

    It's changed again since then. There are now four brigades of two battlions each, so 1/508 and 2/508 came back as 4th Brigade and the other brigades each lost their third battalion.
    Sounds like an Insurgency is going on

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    Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
    Wanda, the Divsion Darling I can't help it.....I just couldn't resist.....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mR49...ACE9F5&index=7
    Slap,

    I got nothing after that. Y'all win. I know when to cut my loses.

    Mike

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeF View Post
    I think we need to rename this the hater thread. I see we're getting a lot of commentary from 3-325 "Blue Falcons" where buddy is only half the word.

    And CR6, if remember correctly, that scandal back in the late 1990's over paratroopers cross-dressing came out of 1st Brigade .

    Bring It.

    Mike
    Mike

    The lesser always resent the better

    It's just their nature

    The truth wins

    Panthers (who are over here now with a great friend in command)

    Tom

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