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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. -- Sun Tzu |
2d Battalion, 82d Aviation(141 total words in this text)(1869 Reads)  Activated 7 December 1962 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1987 as Company B, 82d Aviation, an element of the 82d Airborne Division Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1989 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 82d Aviation, and remained assigned to the 82d Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) 2d Battalion 82d Aviation Honors Campaign Participation Credit Armed Forces Expeditions: * Dominican Republic; * Grenada Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Decorations *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA Company B additionally entitled to: Army Superior Unit Award for 1988-1989 |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
