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101st and 82nd Airborne Division soldiers deploying to Eastern Europe
Task and Purpose ^ | September 21, 2023 | Jeff Schogol

Posted on 09/24/2023 9:08:48 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

The Army is showing no signs of curtailing its deployments to Europe as the war in Ukraine continues to grind on.

On Wednesday the Army announced that about 3,400 soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team will head to Eastern Europe this fall, as will 200 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters.

The units will deploy primarily to Romania as well in Southeastern Europe and to the continent’s “High North” region that includes Scandinavian countries, Army officials said.

Among the 101st troops are infantry units from the division’s storied 187th Infantry Regiment, known as the Rakkasans.

“We look forward to the return of the 82nd Airborne Division to the continent, and to the Rakkasan’s next ‘rendezvous with destiny,’ which follows the back-to-back deployments of their storied division’s two other infantry brigade combat teams,” Army Col. Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for U.S. Army Europe, said in a statement.

The brigade from the 101st Airborne will replace the division’s 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team. The 82nd Airborne troops will replace a similar unit from the 10th Mountain Division, an Army news release says.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: easylike1914; europe; homebychristmas; hystericsbelow; justincase; justlikein1914; nato; romania; tripwire; ukraine; usarmy; war; warmongercons; warmongerneocons; wouldwineasy; wwiii
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To: MinorityRepublican
But our leaders are not always using our soldiers wisely.

They aren't OUR leaders, they're SOMEONE ELSE'S leaders. That's been the problem.

81 posted on 09/24/2023 12:58:29 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well the other issue is that EEE opposes the United States - as a loyal supporter of, get this, Adolf Hitler(!). It’s reasonable that a neo-Nazi would urge people not to enlist. It’s also reasonable for the rest of us to laugh at such a person.


82 posted on 09/24/2023 12:58:43 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: CapandBall

*yawn* this is normal unit rotation, nothing has changed, nothing irregular., no increase… SOP.

Yep


83 posted on 09/24/2023 1:18:00 PM PDT by montanajoe ( )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia occupies Ukraine. Russia annexed Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Crimea.

Russia is the only “warmonger”. It is the sole belligerent invading, occupying and annexing regions and nations.

Russia has singlehandedly imperiled world peace -just as it has been doing across the globe for over 70 years.

And yet you call people who resist Russia’s conquest of foreign nations “globalists”.


84 posted on 09/24/2023 1:19:54 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Timber Rattler

Vietnam sucked the girst time.


85 posted on 09/24/2023 1:20:05 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Timber Rattler; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; ...

The BRAINDEADPEDOPHILE FAILS IN GETTING OUR MILITARY OUT OF THE MIDEAST AND LEAVES BILLIONS OF EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY BEHIND AND GETS AMERICAN’S KILLED !!!!!!

NOW THAT SAME BRAINDEADPEDOPHILE SENDS THE 82nd AND 101st AIRBORNE OVER TO HIS PROXY WAR !!!!!!

US HOUSE OF NON-REPRESENTATIVES GET OFF YOUR A$$€$ AND IMPEACH THIS JACKA$$, THEN PROSECUTE FOR TREASON AND CONTINUE WITH THE PROSECUTIONS FOR MONEY THEFT AND LAUNDERING, CONVICT FOR THAT AND PUT THAT BRAINDEADPEDOPHILE IN JAIL !!!! THEN HANG HIM FOR TREASON...


86 posted on 09/24/2023 1:22:21 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Timber Rattler
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87 posted on 09/24/2023 1:39:33 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: wardaddy; Spok

I suspect that a serious opponent could cause huge damage here in the States without much effort. Our daily life relies on complex systems for electricity, water, food transport and delivery, medicines.

Just interrupting the internet or phone service would make people crazy and cause chaos. Shutting down essential services that we take for granted would be much, much worse.

Anyone who remembers watching James Burke’s “Connections” would understand.


88 posted on 09/24/2023 1:43:43 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: icclearly

The 82nd and the 101st Airborne?

I doubt very seriously there are a bunch of Trannies.


89 posted on 09/24/2023 1:57:17 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: higgmeister

WHY does that even matter? And yes. I was in Europe post the Berlin Wall falling, and German unification. A lot of work went into evaluating various airfields and communications networks prior to them becoming NATO members. It was my job. Hungary and Poland joined in 1999, but work had been ongoing since 1995. And yes, I went on several TDYs to Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Poland and the former Republic of Yugoslavia—Bosnia and Croatia.

At the time, Russia had no objection. But then Yeltsin was a drunk but not power-mad. There was even some joint NATO exercises with Russian armed forces and serious talk of them also joining NATO.

Putin didn’t have a problem with the USA until Obama. Remember when Dubya said he looked into Putin’s eyes and he saw his soul?

Romania is in NATO now and has been for a while, so having US troops there is not a provocation.


90 posted on 09/24/2023 2:17:34 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Made In The USA

And when SHTF here, not for a damn second do I think other countries will be coming to help us. Not even Ukraine.

No, they won’t. What I’m wondering is what’s gonna happen first-our troops getting into a shooting war with the Russians, or nukes getting launched…

Hopefully, none of it. Trump gets re-elected and shuts this down.


91 posted on 09/24/2023 2:25:02 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Alas Babylon!

United States Relations with Russia: After the Cold War

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/85962.htm

This only goes through 2007. You’ll have to go elsewhere to see things turn south when Obama gets control of the USA, but they certainly did.


92 posted on 09/24/2023 2:27:08 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: sport

Id imagine east coast megapolis

Missles locales

Heartland cities of nite

Some would get thru

The entire world collapses

Africa starved again

That would possibly be biggest catastrophe out of many


93 posted on 09/24/2023 2:28:00 PM PDT by wardaddy (Why so many nevertrumpers with early sign ups and no posting history till now? Zot them PTB)
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To: Justa
Russia invaded Ukraine.

Because Russians in the Donbass region were gettting slaughtered.

Russia is the only “warmonger”. It is the sole belligerent invading, occupying and annexing regions and nations.

Russia has repeatedly reached out to Ukraine for peace and gotten the middle finger. It is NATO that has encroached on Russia's borders since 1978, despite saying that they wouldn't do so.

Russia has singlehandedly imperiled world peace -just as it has been doing across the globe for over 70 years.

Yes, because they were controlled by the Communist Jewish Bolsheviks. Now that they're controlled by Orthodox Christian Russians, that isn't the case. Today's Russia isn't the Soviet Union, sorry.

And yet you call people who resist Russia’s conquest of foreign nations “globalists”.

They're not conquering anybody. They want to be left alone. Russia doesn't want to play ball with the globalist elites, so they are being targeted. They have specific objectives why they went into Ukraine, mainly they don't want the corruption and child sex trafficking on their border.

Use your fricking head

94 posted on 09/24/2023 2:31:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: mabarker1

You said it all very clearly. I couldn’t agree with you more.


95 posted on 09/24/2023 2:36:35 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: dennisw

surprised the club dint get bigger over generations


96 posted on 09/24/2023 2:42:56 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Pelham

Yes power out for a few weeks
It’d be Omega Man


97 posted on 09/24/2023 2:52:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (Why so many nevertrumpers with early sign ups and no posting history till now? Zot them PTB)
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To: FlyingEagle

Why?

The neocons here love it

And you’re a racist for opposing it


98 posted on 09/24/2023 2:53:24 PM PDT by wardaddy (Why so many nevertrumpers with early sign ups and no posting history till now? Zot them PTB)
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To: telescope115


99 posted on 09/24/2023 3:24:15 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Not good.

5.56mm


100 posted on 09/24/2023 3:27:26 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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