page_title: 82nd Airborne Division
section_title: Current structure
hierarchical_section_title: 82nd Airborne Division / Current structure
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Special Forces are extracted from a mountain pinnacle in Zabul province, Afghanistan, by a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade after executing an air assault mission to disrupt insurgent communication.
context_page_description: The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army, specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas with a U.S. Department of Defense requirement to "respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours". Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Airborne Division is the U.S. Army's most strategically mobile division. More recently, the 82nd Airborne has been conducting operations in Iraq, advising and assisting Iraqi Security Forces.
  The division was constituted, originally as the 82nd Division, in the National Army on 5 August 1917, shortly after the American entry into World War I. It was organized on 25 August 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia and later served with distinction on the Western Front in the final months of World War I. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for its famed "AA" on the shoulder patch. The division later served in World War II where, in August 1942, it was reconstituted as the first airborne division of the U.S.
context_section_description: 82nd Airborne Division consists of a division headquarters and headquarters battalion, three infantry brigade combat teams, a division artillery, a combat aviation brigade, and a sustainment brigade.
   Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion (DHHB)
  82nd Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC)
  Operations Company (Company A)
  Intelligence and Sustainment Company (Company B)
  Division Signal Company (Company C)
  82nd Airborne Division Band
   US Army Advanced Airborne School
   49th Public Affairs Detachment
  1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) "Devil Brigade"
   1st BCT's HHC
    1st Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment
   3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment
   Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment
   3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment (FAR)
   127th Brigade Engineer Battalion (BEB)
   307th Brigade Support Battalion (BSB)
  2nd BCT "Falcon Brigade"
   2nd BCT's HHC
   1st Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment
    1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 319th FAR
   37th BEB
   407th BSB
  3rd BCT "Panther Brigade"
   3rd BCT's HHC
   1st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment
   1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment
    5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment
   1st Battalion, 319th FAR
   307th BEB
   82nd BSB
  82nd Airborne Division Artillery (DIVARTY) (Has training and readiness oversight of field artillery battalions, which remain organic to their brigade combat teams)
  [[ HHB, 82d Airborne Division Artillery
  Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), 82nd Airborne Division "Pegasus Brigade"
   HHC, CAB, 82d Airborne Division
   Company D, 82d Aviation Regiment, MQ-1C Gray Eagle (Inactivated 15 June 2006 as an Aviation Intermediate Maintenance (AVIM) unit and reflagged as the 122nd Aviation Support Battalion (ASB), the lineage of Company D was reactivated as a separate MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV unit on 16 February 2017. It is not assigned to any of the existing helicopter battalions of the division's CAB.)
   1st Squadron (Heavy Attack/Reconnaissance), 17th Cavalry Regiment, AH-64D Apache
   1st Battalion (Attack), 82nd Aviation Regiment, AH-64D Apache
   2nd Battalion (Assault), 82nd Aviation Regiment, UH-60M Black Hawk
   3rd Battalion (General Support), 82nd Aviation Regiment, CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Black Hawk
   122nd Aviation Support Battalion (ASB)
  82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade
   Special Troops Battalion (STB)
   189th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB)
  The division's 3rd Brigade was known as the Golden Brigade, 1970–2000. The division's 4th Brigade Combat Team inactivated in fall of 2013: the Special Troops Battalion, 4th BCT; the 2nd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment; and the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion were inactivated with some of the companies of the 782nd used to augment support battalions in the remaining three brigades. The 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry joined the 1st Brigade Combat Team and formed the core of the newly activated 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment. The 2nd Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment joined the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, while the 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment joined the 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
caption: US Special Forces extraction by Company A, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment in Afghanistan
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