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...Airborne!" The next day the President took advantage of a long-scheduled speaking trip to the University of North Carolina (see EDUCATION) to see an Army division at close hand. The division was the lean, tough, combat-ready 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. For Kennedy, the excursion into the field was his first as Commander in Chief, and he enjoyed it thoroughly. Kennedy rode slowly past the massed units of the 10,268-man division. When the inspection was done, Kennedy praised the 82nd for doing "in peacetime what other men do in war, and that is, live hazardously...
...elite of the Stateside divisions are the 4th Infantry and the all-volunteer 82nd and 101st Airborne, which make up the Strategic Army Corps, the combat-ready reserve that would be thrown into battle wherever it might break out around the world...
...Jump Again." At the 82nd Airborne's jump school at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week, a trainee leaped from a 35-ft. tower and was jerked up like a marionette by the wire attached to his shoulder harness. When he reached the ground, the trainee's lips were flecked with blood. The instructor ignored it. "Your exit was too quick and you didn't keep your elbows in," he snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four...
...command merges the Strategic Army Corps, composed of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the 4th Infantry Division, with the F-100 and F-105 fighter-bombers, reconnaissance aircraft and transports of the Tactical Air Command. In an emergency, the long-range planes of the Military Air Transport Service would deliver troops and supplies to a staging area overseas, where they would be shuttled into battle by the shorter-range transports of the new command. The new system, according to Pentagon estimates, will cut overseas deployment time by one-third, fly 1,800 paratroopers some 8,000 miles...
Mission to Rome. In September 1943, with invasion imminent, Italy wanted desperately to surrender to the Allies. The Italians under Marshal Badoglio maintained that the 82nd could capture Rome by making a surprise landing. General Dwight Eisenhower assigned Taylor and Air Corps Colonel William T. Gardiner to check out the scheme by going to Rome...