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...down onto the sandy scrubland of Florida's panhandle early one morning this month: 2,640 soldiers leaping from 20 huge C-141 jets, along with three more planeloads of Jeeps and other heavy equipment. They came from the XVIII Airborne Corps and the First Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. If war or the threat of war were to come in the Persian Gulf area, these paratroopers likely would be the U.S. spearhead...
...President decided last fall to assign 100,000 men?basically members of the Marine Corps's 1st and 3rd divisions and the Army's 82nd and 101st airborne divisions?to a Rapid Deployment Force that eventually will be able to respond quickly to emergencies anywhere in the world. The force will be supplied by a fleet of 15 ships, most of them stationed near areas of crisis, and an undetermined number of new cargo planes probably based in the U.S. Total cost: about $10 billion. But the ships and planes exist only on drawing boards. The force is not expected...
While the Army's 82nd Airborne Division is trained for quick deployment to global hotspots, its base at Fort Bragg, N.C., is 6,500 miles from Tehran. It probably would not be possible to keep secret the dispatching of even a few of its elite units. Said a senior Pentagon official: "You alert the 82nd, and within minutes someone would call his mama to tell her that he was going. Then the news would...
...last-place Crimson (0-2 Ivy, 2-2 overall) hosts first-place Dartmouth (2-0, 2-2) at 1:30 this afternoon in the Stadium, and if past confrontations mean anything, the 82nd meeting between these clubs will be a knock-down, drag-out affair...
...Angola. Responding to an urgent telephone plea from Mobutu, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing dispatched 1,200 Foreign Legion paratroopers to Shaba. Belgian Premier Léo Tindemans sent another contingent of paras to help airlift 3,000 Europeans from Kolwezi. Units of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., were placed on alert, and the White House announced that 18 Air Force C-141 transports, based in West Germany and along the U.S. East Coast, were assisting the French and Belgian operations...