2007-03-23 22:55:45 · 11 answers · asked by Bookworm 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
(1) Division Pathfinders.
(2) Division LRSD.
(3) Fort Campbell Parachute Demonstration Team.
That's it. Everyone else rides on UH or CH. Doesn't mean you still can't wear jump wings though. Just means you can't wear the Maroon beret anymore.
We're not the only Air Assault Division in the world, by the way. The Russians have six of them. Do a search on "VDV" sometime.
Oh and after OIF-1? Every Stryker unit that relieved us, whether in Mosul or Q-West, throughly undid all our accomplishments in sector. We heard about a lot of the good Iraqis working with us getting killed right after we left (from those of us unlucky enough to get transferred to Stryker units) and the local insurgency making great strides. Great work, people. If you're from a Stryker unit (note: REAL Mech units aren't Stryker) and you want to bend the truth at everyone else's expense for the public to make yourself sound good? Just remember lying gets you only so far.
2007-03-24 19:37:14 · answer #1 · answered by Nat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was with "C" Company (Cougar Co.) 1st of the 327th 61-64 at Campbell. We were all jump qualified at that time and it s sad to say, they transformed this great unit into Air Assault and pulled them off of jump status. They should have done that to the prima-donna s of the 82nd. They would not jump Carrentan, Yamoto, or the 187 DZ s at Fort Campbell, when I was there, because they were "too hard". Sorry, I still consider the AA (82nd) Abn as the (Almost Airborne) Division. The 101st has a great history and tradition.
2015-06-10 11:35:10 · answer #2 · answered by Richard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the soldiers are airborne qualified, but they don't do airborne missions or training. They are technically an "air assault" unit - the only one in the world - which basically means they repel out of helicopters and use them to transport large amounts of equipment. It's a little more complicated than that, but thats the gist of it.
Not all the soldiers in the 101st are air assault qualified though, but most of them are. When they do air assault missions or training, a lot of them come in on trucks anyway.
2007-03-24 02:54:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 101st Airborne is no longer jump qualified.
There are two units, the two pathfinder companies that are still jump qualified.
2007-03-23 23:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
101st Screaming Eagle are doing air assualt operations.
2007-03-24 02:58:59 · answer #5 · answered by c1523456 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not as a unit since 1973.
2007-03-23 22:59:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea, a lot still do. It is that the unit has been focused to air assault style missions since the helicopter is so versatile. Some still jump though.
2007-03-23 22:58:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is still a need for parachutists, but not on the large scale as seen in WWII.
The emphasis now is on HALO/HAHO operations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALO
Helicopters are now frequently used for other behind the line insertions.
2007-03-23 23:37:08 · answer #8 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
became the one hundred and one nonetheless on bounce status in 1971, they could have been off by using then yet while they have been nonetheless leaping C-a hundred thirty C-141 C-7A C-119 probably Constellation (can not undergo in strategies nomenclature) probably C-40 six or 40 seven UH Chinook those are those that are evoked for that element (it is the year i went by using Abn college)
2016-11-28 02:55:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, they be liking helicopters these days.
2007-03-23 22:58:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋