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Old 10-01-2009   #1
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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
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Sergeant Major, I reckon we're both a little sooty.

A demon in baggy britches has no room to talk!
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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.
The Dvision Darlings.....Oh yea the Gay Brigade
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The Dvision Darlings.....Oh yea the Gay Brigade
Obvious jealousy is so common

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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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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.

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or a cross dresser for that matter...

Let's Go!
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Pink Panthers are cute...
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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.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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It's just their nature

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

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