Word: 502nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doomed members of the Third Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) were part of a U.S. force of 779 troopers being rotated out of the Sinai, where they had manned observation posts and checkpoints to enforce Camp David Peace Treaty accords against Egyptian or Israeli military use of the region. Two hundred and fifty soldiers had arrived home by charter earlier in the month, and the final detachment was scheduled to arrive at Fort Campbell this week...