Ft Bragg is also home to the 82nd Airborne Division is and it's also a rapid deployment base.
The mission of the 82nd Airborne Division is to, within 18 hours of notification, strategically deploy, conduct forcible entry parachute assault and secure key objectives for follow-on military operations in support of U.S. national interests.
Thank you! Wow, that is something! Tell you husband "Thank You" for his dad's service. He must have heard lots of stories from his dad, uh?
My father was a Drill Sergeant in the Army but never deployed anywhere.
My husband was also a Drill Sergeant & MP in the Army besides Airborne. We joked about his last jump, which bone he will break on his way out of the service, lol. Of all things he broke his nose👃 on that last jump. 😂 A guy called me saying my husband was in the hospital, freaked me out, thinking the worst, then he said he broke his nose 🤦♀️
That was his last jump before leaving active duty, then went into the reserves till he retired. He had deployments both with active duty and in the reserves.
His Father landed in Italy and fought there and in Southern France. It was called the Champagne Campaign.
He was injured and got a Purple Heart when a faulty Round exploded in the 75mm Howitzer he was operating. Got shrapnel in his shoulder and upper arm sent to an Italian Hospital. Then he was "liberated" by a couple of buddies from his outfit because they didn't want him to miss their Combat Jump. They "borrowed" a jeep and when they arrived at the hospital they grabbed some hospital coats from a linen closet and simply walked him out of the hospital! He made 1 Combat Jump in Southern France called Operation Dragoon on August 15, 1944.
A few months later was fighting in the Bulge. He hated cold weather after that! 🌨️❄️🥶
Wow, what a time he had with his brothers in arms! Sounds like what would be in one of those old war movies, doesn't it? If he had more of those amazing experiences that he told, your husband should write a book about his dad.
I know right? He used it as an excuse not to help me with our yard sale the following day 😏😂 Have to admit though, he looked pretty rough the next day, lol. He landed just fine, but then the wind kicked up and parachute dragged his butt across the field and smacked his face on a big rock 🤕
"My father was a Drill Sergeant in the Army but never deployed anywhere."
A bit like my own father. He was in the WWII USAAC and trained as a bombardier. But just after he completed his training, the war ended and he was discharged in 1946.
And a good thing, too, since he married my mother in 1947.
Ft Bragg is also home to the 82nd Airborne Division is and it's also a rapid deployment base.
https://home.army.mil/bragg/units-tenants/82nd-airborne-division
Reason why hubs was stationed there (yrs ago).
God bless his Service! 🫡🇺🇲
My husband's late Father was All American 82nd in WWII
J1D... A VERY LOUD: "OOOOOOOOOO HAHHHH"!!!!!!
Hand Salute to those men that went all the way!!!!!
Thank you! Wow, that is something! Tell you husband "Thank You" for his dad's service. He must have heard lots of stories from his dad, uh?
My father was a Drill Sergeant in the Army but never deployed anywhere.
My husband was also a Drill Sergeant & MP in the Army besides Airborne. We joked about his last jump, which bone he will break on his way out of the service, lol. Of all things he broke his nose👃 on that last jump. 😂 A guy called me saying my husband was in the hospital, freaked me out, thinking the worst, then he said he broke his nose 🤦♀️
That's one on those not so crazy, universe completing itself, sort of things.
That was his last jump before leaving active duty, then went into the reserves till he retired. He had deployments both with active duty and in the reserves.
His Father landed in Italy and fought there and in Southern France. It was called the Champagne Campaign.
He was injured and got a Purple Heart when a faulty Round exploded in the 75mm Howitzer he was operating. Got shrapnel in his shoulder and upper arm sent to an Italian Hospital. Then he was "liberated" by a couple of buddies from his outfit because they didn't want him to miss their Combat Jump. They "borrowed" a jeep and when they arrived at the hospital they grabbed some hospital coats from a linen closet and simply walked him out of the hospital! He made 1 Combat Jump in Southern France called Operation Dragoon on August 15, 1944.
A few months later was fighting in the Bulge. He hated cold weather after that! 🌨️❄️🥶
Wow, what a time he had with his brothers in arms! Sounds like what would be in one of those old war movies, doesn't it? If he had more of those amazing experiences that he told, your husband should write a book about his dad.
Thankfully that's all he broke!! 🙏
I know right? He used it as an excuse not to help me with our yard sale the following day 😏😂 Have to admit though, he looked pretty rough the next day, lol. He landed just fine, but then the wind kicked up and parachute dragged his butt across the field and smacked his face on a big rock 🤕
"My father was a Drill Sergeant in the Army but never deployed anywhere."
A bit like my own father. He was in the WWII USAAC and trained as a bombardier. But just after he completed his training, the war ended and he was discharged in 1946.
And a good thing, too, since he married my mother in 1947.