82nd Airborne Division

Emmitt Yeary, who served in the “82nd Airborne Division and in Vietnam in the late 1960s” made the creation of the park possible. He wanted people to see and remember as they go through Abingdon. The love for his country and history made him fight for the city to turn the unused town park into…

“Joint functions are related capabilities and activities grouped together to help Joint Force Commanders integrate, synchronize, and direct joint operations.” The Sicily Campaign, known as Operation Husky, provides various examples of combined and joint functions. Although Operation Husky resulted in an important Allied victory, joint functions such as command and control (C2) proved dismal; fires were considered marginal; while maneuver was regarded as satisfactory. To illustrate this a brief…

Her husband (Camille Gagne) was a part of the 82nd Airborne and was shipped out to Fort Benning in Georgia for even more training. Due to the additional training Camille missed the birth of his son and didn’t have the chance to see him. After the training in Fort Benning, his unit went to North Africa for…

It all started the morning of March 5th, 1998 around 2 A.M., paramedics were called to the scene of an accident involving a two-car crash, where one of the two victims was a pregnant woman. When the paramedics arrived, the woman was unconscious and was immediately rushed to the closest hospital, Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Ma. Upon the arrival, the woman remained unconscious with cuts and bruises, it was time for the medical staff to make a move in attempt to save the child. As the…

Leadership Challenges of Combined Joint Forces SGM George K. Ott Operation Enduring Freedom, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Farah Afghanistan, 04/30/2008 38B, Civil Affairs Team NCOIC, 451st CA Bn. CJTF-82 Bagram george.k.ott.mil@mail.mil 9 November 2015 Class 42 Abstract I was deployed in late 2006 to become a Civil Affairs soldier and lead a CA team as the NCOIC in Operation Enduring Freedom, within the first hundred days of arriving at forward operating base in Farah, Afghanistan; I was…