82nd Shock Troops Division

The 82nd Shock Trooper Division is an elite special operations division of the , specializing in tactics. "The 82nd" as its commonly referred to, is one of the oldest active elements in the , with its initial activation in 1917, making it over six-hundred and forty years old, fighting in every major war the was involved with and later, every war the has been involved with.
==Origins==
Following the United State's entry into World War I, the 82nd Division was activated on August 25th, 1917, fighting until the wars end in 1918, when it was demobilized and deactivated in 1920. One year later, on June 24th, 1921, it was moved into the organized reserve. The 82nd would remain in reserves until February 14th, 1942 when it was redesignated the 82nd Infantry Division following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into . On August 15th, 1942, the unit was again redesignated for the last time until 2164, as the 82nd Airborne Division as the US Army's first airborne division. The 82nd would make combat jumps into Sicily, Salerno, on D-Day into Normandy, and lastly Holland during World War II. Following the end of World War II, the 82nd would go onto serve in every major US war up until the disillusion of the US military, when the US Army and the 82nd Airborne were absorbed into the newly created . With the large scale development of (ODST) in 2163 under the UNSC Marine Corp, the 82nd was moved under the UNSC Marine Corp, being established as the 82nd Shock Trooper Division, becoming the UNSCs first organized ODST division. 
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