101st Airborne

In relation to the previous post of 82^nd Airborne division unit, I thought I’d post about the 101^st Airborne division unit. 101^st Airborne division just as the 82^nd division has similar qualities of history. They are well known by the people in the military, but even so at Fort. Campbell. Fort. Campbell is basically their home and its headquarters. Many modern members of the 101st are graduates of the U.S Army Air Assault School, and wear the Air Assault Badge, but it is not a prerequisite for assignment to the division. As you have already known from my previous post about the air assault school, you should be aware that obtaining such a badge is hard. Thus getting into this division or even so deploying with them is very hard.

Though they are part of the “airborne” unit, they are usually not paratroopers, so they do not jump out of planes with parachutes. They however, get the opportunity to jump out of the helicopters in which they get assigned to. With its proud tradition and history of deployments, they currently operate in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the war on terrorism happening today. They were heavily engaged in the operation Desert Storm by seeing many military movies, you should be aware that many of them where from this division because helicopters were used to hover over villages.

The "Screaming Eagles" is also the nickname for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Command Parachute Demonstration Team. This is done by group of parachute riggers doing sets of jumps as part of ceremonies or practices. Most of the helicopters the unit occupies currently are the Black Hawk aircraft since it has the most affective use in transporting large group of 101^st airborne soldiers.