Falcons need love, too...
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.
"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen." - Jeff Cooper
Falcons need love, too...
Last edited by Ken White; 10-27-2011 at 01:20 AM.
Breeches.
You're probably right -- we can both pick on the Puddy Tat Brigahde...
Just to keep Tom Odom alert.
...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.
"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen." - Jeff Cooper
and deservedly so...we both know the 505 are the Division Darlings
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.
Pink Panthers are cute...
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
Last edited by MikeF; 10-02-2009 at 05:45 PM.
Wanda, the Divsion Darling I can't help it.....I just couldn't resist.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mR49...ACE9F5&index=7
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.
Last edited by Rifleman; 10-03-2009 at 02:32 AM.
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