A fine soldier, an outstanding point man and a friend. The three groups clustered there had tenuous contact with each other but none with the rest of the division. We knew there were enemy in the immediate area from that sixth sense that you develop that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. I have seen Doc Ortega and other medics whose primary weapon was a .45 pistol do it as a matter of course. Sink, who issued orders for the 1st Battalion 401st Glider Infantry to lead three battalions south the next morning. They were searching for improvised bombs. The division played a major role during D-Day operations by clearing a path for the 4th Infantry Division to land on Utah Beach, and eventually linked the Utah and Omaha beachheads and liberated the city of Carentan. We were able to suppress the fire of the ones attacking us and evade them although we continued to receive machine gun fire from the high ground, which cut the grass down all around us. By the end of the second day of battle, it became apparent that the Both divisions were alerted on the evening of 17 December, and not having organic transport, began arranging trucks for movement forward, the weather conditions being unfit for a parachute drop. When we returned to the crater, we discovered that SSG Cohen had been killed. On 17 September 1944, the 101st Airborne Division became part of The plan, as outlined by Field Marshal Montgomery, required the seizure by airborne forces of several bridges on the The operation was initially successful. The Screaming Eagles received 93 more votes than the 82nd in the sports bracket-style social media competition designed to identify the Army unit with the most unit pride. Humanitarian aid The remaining two brigades and supporting units were organized as airmobile.

The 101st left Camp Mourmelon on the afternoon of 18 December, with the order of march the division artillery, division trains, The 101st Airborne was routed to Bastogne, located 107 miles (172 km) away on a 1,463 feet (446 m) high Despite several determined German attacks, the perimeter held. Simultaneously with training Iraqi soldiers and their leaders, 101st soldiers conducted numerous security operations against Developing other aspects of Iraqi society also figured in 101st operations in Iraq. Several bridges between The Ardennes Offensive (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive launched towards the end of World War II through the forested Despite several notable signs in the weeks preceding the attack, the Ardennes Offensive achieved virtually complete surprise.

I thought Riley was either dead or so near being dead that there was no way he could live. The ones that hit us were most likely a delaying force.Since we were occupied with securing and searching the area, one of the trailing Platoons took over the medivac. On June 6, 1944, the Screaming Eagles became the first Allied soldiers to set foot into occupied France in the Cotentin Peninsula, according to the Army. They also received machine gun fire from the high ground.

He was an excellent soldier and an inspiration to everyone.As we continued to operate from Veghel we lost many good men, wounded and killed.

Despite naval gunfire support from the cruiser The S-3 officer of the 3rd Battalion 506th PIR, Capt. Most of the 2nd Battalion had jumped too far west, near The surviving battalion commander, Lt Col. Robert A. Ballard, gathered 250 troopers and advanced toward Saint Côme-du-Mont to complete his mission of destroying the highway bridges over the Douve. We could hear Raymondo Armijo and the others yelling out body count as they fought off the attack. Roger Morris. The Screamin' Eagle is a community-created cosmetic item for the Soldier.It consists of a light brown paintable side cap that replaces the Soldier's default helmet and covers his eyes, and a thick and sharp black mustache which covers the Soldier's upper lip. Valerian Teel, my machine gunner, always fast with the hot chocolate, brewed up a quick cup on his C4 stove and offered me a drink. That ten feet to my M16 might as well have been ten miles. Let me call your attention to the fact that our badge is the great American eagle. After alert notification, troopers of the "hot" platoon/company, would be airborne, "wheels-up" within 30 minutes as the first responding unit.

In September 1980, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 2nd Brigade, took part in On 8 March 1988, two U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters assigned to the 101st Aviation Brigade collided while on a night training mission at Fort Campbell. The NVA we were up against were not your garden variety Charlie. The commander of the 501st PIR, Col. Howard R. Johnson, collected 150 troops and captured the main objective, la Barquette lock, by 0400.