>they use helicopters
Their aviation brigade is the same size as anyone else's CAB. "Air assault" is just cope to cover up the fact that they're just a generic light infantry division now.
Died like dogs to opfor during this most recent CBR rotation and for some reason most of the pics of the 101st on DVIDS are of fat infantry which I find very very strange
>101st has a company of Abrams and bradleys attached to them >Proceeds to waste the Abrams by keeping them in the rear with the gear away from the fight >Sends all the bradleys in onesies and twosies to get molested by AT Teams and OPFOR tanks
They deserved it really
Kek, I was on opfor for some of my battalion's (guard unit) air assault guys.
They got dropped off like, maybe 2 or 3 miles south of us, and had us waiting several hours to get hit.
Apparently they got lost in the desert despite being told explicitly where we were in this big clearing. It ended up taking so long that our batt commander and CSM came to hide in the shade we had in our little camp to wait for them with us.
To top it all off, when the last platoon (we had to do this for each one, A-D) finally got there and sluggishly went through their battle drill, their platoon sgt started getting pissed at us for getting up from being dead too quickly, because the ground was hot and full of cacti, but our XO happened to be there and told him to lay off.
Fond memories, even though it kind of sucked at the time
>shot in the dark >greatsuccess.jpg >becomes a meme >trotted out for photo ops for next 70 years
Basically just a light infantry recruiting squad at this point, they don't even jump anymore
1st Brigade fucking sucked. 2nd Brigade I'm not sure actually exists. 3rd Brigade produces assholes about as obnoxious as the 82nd. Which sucks because we also had 82nd expats who will call you boot while they're on permanent profile
t. 1-506
so like >just munchin
when ya gonna >keeps munchin
yenno >munchin intensifies
when ya gonna go die for israel? >just keeps on munchin
i need me some dead israelite and zogbot kino
hurry up and go die over there, i wanna see dead globohomo soldiers
>On September 23, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, which put the Arkansas National Guard under federal authority, and sent 1,000 U.S. Army troops from the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, to maintain order as Central High School desegregated. > On September 25, 1957, the Little Rock Nine attended Central High for their first full day of classes, under the protection of the newly federalized Arkansas National Guard and the 101 Airborne Division, who steadily withdrew as a dwindling number of state soldiers took full control of security by December.
>capable of shooting back
This argument never works when you have a war that has more enemy deaths than their own. Vietnam was done decently despite the troubles when it comes to operations.
>Funny since that's a pretty accurate description of southern men throughout history.
That's pretty accurate their smartest minds got beat by an Ohio drunk who had to be tied to his horse
He’s right, everyone outside of 82nd makes fun of them for being the 82nd and actively dislikes it when former guys bring their 82isms with them to new units
nowadays 101st is probably one of the better conventional units you can be assigned to. >light infantry so no motorpool bs to deal with >pretty much guaranteed air assault school on arrival >resides in state with good gun laws and is close to Nashville >deployments to Europe rn and about to take over centcom iirc so syria deployments soon
We got the new ISV's so every infantry company has to do motorpool monday every week. It's pretty easy though considering they're brand new and easy as fuck to PMCS. Usually takes up like an hour of our morning every monday
>He kept hiding from his duties to take naps and play his guitar
Shamming is every soldier's god given right, so fuck you and the 1SG's cock you rode in on.
They came and RIP'd my unit in Afghan in 2010 and completely fucked up everything we spent all year working on. The COP we built up from a literal trucks-in-a-circle patrol base to a hesco complex housing 350 troops with a/c and power. Turned the area from dogshit to workable in 13 months. Heard they nearly got overrun a month or 3 after showing up because they showed up, got bored, started intimidating locals and tryna start fights.
I dont want to say ALL, but I remember seeing a giant table of patches at the national infantry museum (you go for infantry OSUT graduation) and seemed like most shit was accounted for. I believe most shit existed at some point but was deactivated. Some get deactivated then reactivated, so might see them again. Some military history nerd probably has a better answer than this, but figured id answer in meantime.
This confusion happens because the designation (Airborne, etc) is stuck right to the unit number. A less confusing way to format it would be 101st Division (Airborne), 10th Division (Mountain), or 1st Division (Infantry).
No worries, it is a confusing way to designate shit imo, especially when you even count units that never really existed in reality like the one you cited.
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Anonymous
>it only exists on paper
send sharpe to investigate
Some numbers were skipped so they could be used as deception formations. The 9th and 21st Airborne were assigned to the fictitious invasion of Calais that was 'supposed' to happen a few weeks after D-Day.
The Airborne, Air Mobile, and Light/Mountain divisions are numbered in the same sequence as Infantry divisions. There's not a 10th or 11th Infantry division, but there is a 10th Mountain and an 11th Airborne.
Because they trace lineage way the fuck back to the civil war mobilizations where the states were all cranking out raised regiments one after the other, or WWI when states were all cranking out raised regiments one after the other. When WWI came along the numbering system was retained as those units were organized into the modern army. As the army was reorganized over and over again throughout the following decades most of those units were either transferred to reserve or national guard units, or retired. Others stayed on and went through changes to conform to new ideas about military organization. Keeping the honors and lineage of storied units is good for troop morale and public opinion. Units that did famous shit during WWII or had generals who favored them ended up becoming the face of the active army when all the other units were stood down, and the number dwindled over the years as the standing army got smaller and smaller.
So the 100th Infantry Division survives today as a training organization for the Army at Fort Knox, and the 102nd Infantry Division survives as a training organization for the Reserves at Fort Leonard Wood. Meanwhile the 101st gets to be an active division for the permanently standing army. Them's just the breaks.
really? then link me to the 67th airborne. in which ww2 battle did the 67th airborne fight?
Because Airborne is just a variation of Infantry, just as Mountain is also a variation of Infantry. That's why we don't have 10th Infantry but we have 10th Mountain. Cavalry and Armor are separate numbering systems, and they traditionally had far fewer divisions. Infantry went all the way up to the 106th Infantry in WW2.
oh wait, there was a 67th division, but apparently it only existed on paper.
>67th Infantry Division: never actually organized during World War II
It only exists on paper because they started to stand it up and then never activated it. It was intended to be real, but for some reason never was. There were 7 divisions like that.
A good light infantry unit with Division level air assault capabilities and a bit more experience with air assault operations than arguably anyone else that isn't 10th Mountain. Their CAB is about the same size as everyone else's but they also get rides from 160th and other units in the AO.
Also, reminder that all stories ITT are anecdotes from people who likely never went beyond a Platoon level and have a very small slice of experience with other units.
Absolute trash. Was with them for 2.5 years and was never so close to an heroing or drinking myself to death because of how fuckin retarded they were. Leadership was bad all the way up. Air assault was gay. CAV is extra gay. Whoever said there is no motorpool in light units is wrong as fuck, in fact its worse. Last rotation before I left the entire Brigade was raped, TWICE at JRTC. Also Brigade was blacklisted from deployment because war crimes.
leadership at 2bde has actually gotten better recently. We swapped out pretty much everyone down to the company level quickly after this last rotation to europe.
I can't speak for everyone, obviously- but from where I'm at, battalion and brigade level has gotten a lot better. On Fridays, the brigade commander will storm around the battalion buildings after 1500 and tell people to go the fuck home and spend time with their families.
I always hear that the BDE commander is going around kicking people out, but he never actually comes by the company office and I still wind up working with my company commander until around 1900 every Friday. I have found life to be around 500% worse since we got back from Europe. Just depends on your company and BN I suppose.
>Also Brigade was blacklisted from deployment because war crimes.
kek you must be in 2nd brigade. i was in 1st during my contract and i remember the CO of my company had to sit us all down in the old dfac to tell us Above the Rest had a tranny in their battalion and under no circumstance we were to offend them and if we see them we should just turn around and walk away. this was around 16' or 17' whenever Trump let the trannies in. idk why people like that dude so much but thats a different conversation
What's with the US order of battle these days? I heard they were moving back to division centric operations (Ukraine war definitely suggests doing this).
But right now they only have one armored division and one calvary division and they are both in Third Corps. Is the plan to just scale up really quickly in the event of a peer war?
they can probably walk further than i can and probably shoot better than i can and can probably starve slower than i can and they will probably show up someplace where you weren't really thinking they would show up. like all at once.
This is porn, isnt it?
First thing I thought is that logo looks off somehow.
They're the biggest alcoholics in the US Military.
They could learn something from the other Airbone unit...
It's a fukkin army unit. What do you expect? They use helicopters instead of tracks or planes.
>they use helicopters
Their aviation brigade is the same size as anyone else's CAB. "Air assault" is just cope to cover up the fact that they're just a generic light infantry division now.
A bunch of dudes who massively overhype the difficulty and importance of a 10 day school that women, POGs, and retards pass every single class cycle.
Nobody in the 101st thinks AIr Assault school is cool, but in front of an outsider who doesn't have a bullwinkle badge we'll sometimes pretend
Heard some crazy person from a unit there started summoning demons
new doom game with main character as a 101st
Died like dogs to opfor during this most recent CBR rotation and for some reason most of the pics of the 101st on DVIDS are of fat infantry which I find very very strange
>grunts get fucked up in an exercise at a major training installation
No shit, huh?
>101st has a company of Abrams and bradleys attached to them
>Proceeds to waste the Abrams by keeping them in the rear with the gear away from the fight
>Sends all the bradleys in onesies and twosies to get molested by AT Teams and OPFOR tanks
They deserved it really
Almost certainly a case of "man we don't want to pay for the tank fuel". Happens on rotations from time to time.
>Hype the hell out of themselves
>proceed to get absolutely sodomized by OPFOR
Sounds like typical rakkasan behavior
Kek, I was on opfor for some of my battalion's (guard unit) air assault guys.
They got dropped off like, maybe 2 or 3 miles south of us, and had us waiting several hours to get hit.
Apparently they got lost in the desert despite being told explicitly where we were in this big clearing. It ended up taking so long that our batt commander and CSM came to hide in the shade we had in our little camp to wait for them with us.
To top it all off, when the last platoon (we had to do this for each one, A-D) finally got there and sluggishly went through their battle drill, their platoon sgt started getting pissed at us for getting up from being dead too quickly, because the ground was hot and full of cacti, but our XO happened to be there and told him to lay off.
Fond memories, even though it kind of sucked at the time
>shot in the dark
>greatsuccess.jpg
>becomes a meme
>trotted out for photo ops for next 70 years
Basically just a light infantry recruiting squad at this point, they don't even jump anymore
1st Brigade fucking sucked. 2nd Brigade I'm not sure actually exists. 3rd Brigade produces assholes about as obnoxious as the 82nd. Which sucks because we also had 82nd expats who will call you boot while they're on permanent profile
t. 1-506
2nd brigade here
We exist, but in a constant state of pain
Fuckin truth. Always forgotten about until shtf and then begged for help.
Forgot to add T. 2-502.
anon you're replying to, 1-502 here
nothing like a 5 hour nature walk with the boys while looking for a peq 15, or re-doing tiedowns right before a 4 day
The guy who lost it was a CPL at my last unit in my platoon. Great dude but dumber than a bag of rocks. I wasn't surprised when I found it was him lol
so like
>just munchin
when ya gonna
>keeps munchin
yenno
>munchin intensifies
when ya gonna go die for israel?
>just keeps on munchin
i need me some dead israelite and zogbot kino
hurry up and go die over there, i wanna see dead globohomo soldiers
Former Rakkasan here
It was VERY gay and VERY shitty
is right about them
T. 3-187 veteran
Tough, until they have to fight people actually capable of shooting back.
story?
Bunch of hateful whites were stopped from attacking 9 black kids on their way to school
They were forcing blacks into white schools no one wanted. As you can see, pretesting while having the skin color of white gets the military sent in.
https://www.history.com/news/little-rock-nine-brown-v-board-eisenhower-101-airborne
>On September 23, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, which put the Arkansas National Guard under federal authority, and sent 1,000 U.S. Army troops from the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, to maintain order as Central High School desegregated.
> On September 25, 1957, the Little Rock Nine attended Central High for their first full day of classes, under the protection of the newly federalized Arkansas National Guard and the 101 Airborne Division, who steadily withdrew as a dwindling number of state soldiers took full control of security by December.
>capable of shooting back
This argument never works when you have a war that has more enemy deaths than their own. Vietnam was done decently despite the troubles when it comes to operations.
Funny since that's a pretty accurate description of southern men throughout history.
Funny since your mother likes this southern man. A lot!!
OH NO NO NO NO
>Funny since that's a pretty accurate description of southern men throughout history.
That's pretty accurate their smartest minds got beat by an Ohio drunk who had to be tied to his horse
>by an Ohio drunk who had to be tied to his horse
that's because he felt THE NEED FOR SPEED!
>National guard unit protecting children from getting lynched .
Propaganda unit. Never did half of what they claim to, most of it was actually done by British paragliders.
Shouldn't you be killing arab babies?
It’s bullshit propaganda, nearly all of them are born in a hospital. I asked.
they get bullied HARD by the 82nd, and like everything army, its very very gay.
This doesn't happen at all, nobody cares about the 82nd outside of the 82nd
t. 2/501 fag who has been to other places
for sure, homosexual..
He’s right, everyone outside of 82nd makes fun of them for being the 82nd and actively dislikes it when former guys bring their 82isms with them to new units
my friend got to blow crashed helicopters up while deployed in afghanistan with them, that sounds pretty cool
nowadays 101st is probably one of the better conventional units you can be assigned to.
>light infantry so no motorpool bs to deal with
>pretty much guaranteed air assault school on arrival
>resides in state with good gun laws and is close to Nashville
>deployments to Europe rn and about to take over centcom iirc so syria deployments soon
We got the new ISV's so every infantry company has to do motorpool monday every week. It's pretty easy though considering they're brand new and easy as fuck to PMCS. Usually takes up like an hour of our morning every monday
Based in the Ardennes and then gay and cringe when they forced desegregation of schools and held kids at bayonet point.
>regards, /misc/
It sucks, if you're not #1 then you're last, and 101st is 100 numbers away from #1
Hendrix was 101st
He kept hiding from his duties to take naps and play his guitar
I'm glad that he did because his music is awesome
worth
>He kept hiding from his duties to take naps and play his guitar
Shamming is every soldier's god given right, so fuck you and the 1SG's cock you rode in on.
He pretended to be gay to get out of the army without going to jail lol and it worked
They came and RIP'd my unit in Afghan in 2010 and completely fucked up everything we spent all year working on. The COP we built up from a literal trucks-in-a-circle patrol base to a hesco complex housing 350 troops with a/c and power. Turned the area from dogshit to workable in 13 months. Heard they nearly got overrun a month or 3 after showing up because they showed up, got bored, started intimidating locals and tryna start fights.
Fags.
this shit low key slaps, wouldnt wanna be anywhere else
t.1-327
i don't know what airborne is but i think the drawing is cute
Don't know about now, but they did pretty good at Bastogne back in 1944 and if you don't think so then 'nuts' to you.
can they fix that? it looks like a dying bald eagle. bad for morale
why are military units called the 100th, the 84th, the 11th, when usually they arent the 100th, the 84th, the 11th etc. as they claim to be?
i mean im pretty sure the us military doesnt have 100 airborne divisions named 1st. 2nd 3rd 4th etc.
and who came up with that bullshit?
I dont want to say ALL, but I remember seeing a giant table of patches at the national infantry museum (you go for infantry OSUT graduation) and seemed like most shit was accounted for. I believe most shit existed at some point but was deactivated. Some get deactivated then reactivated, so might see them again. Some military history nerd probably has a better answer than this, but figured id answer in meantime.
This basically. A lot of units/brigades only existed in WWII.
really? then link me to the 67th airborne. in which ww2 battle did the 67th airborne fight?
This confusion happens because the designation (Airborne, etc) is stuck right to the unit number. A less confusing way to format it would be 101st Division (Airborne), 10th Division (Mountain), or 1st Division (Infantry).
well if i google 67th infantry division or just 67th division i dont get anything either. there were 2 67th regiments though.
oh wait, there was a 67th division, but apparently it only existed on paper.
>67th Infantry Division: never actually organized during World War II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisions_of_the_United_States_Army
sorry my bad, you are right
No worries, it is a confusing way to designate shit imo, especially when you even count units that never really existed in reality like the one you cited.
>it only exists on paper
send sharpe to investigate
67th is a WWI infantry division.
Some numbers were skipped so they could be used as deception formations. The 9th and 21st Airborne were assigned to the fictitious invasion of Calais that was 'supposed' to happen a few weeks after D-Day.
>look at current russo-ukraine war
>"russian 810th brigade" mentioned
>810th
what the fuck happened to 809 things before it
The Airborne, Air Mobile, and Light/Mountain divisions are numbered in the same sequence as Infantry divisions. There's not a 10th or 11th Infantry division, but there is a 10th Mountain and an 11th Airborne.
Because they trace lineage way the fuck back to the civil war mobilizations where the states were all cranking out raised regiments one after the other, or WWI when states were all cranking out raised regiments one after the other. When WWI came along the numbering system was retained as those units were organized into the modern army. As the army was reorganized over and over again throughout the following decades most of those units were either transferred to reserve or national guard units, or retired. Others stayed on and went through changes to conform to new ideas about military organization. Keeping the honors and lineage of storied units is good for troop morale and public opinion. Units that did famous shit during WWII or had generals who favored them ended up becoming the face of the active army when all the other units were stood down, and the number dwindled over the years as the standing army got smaller and smaller.
So the 100th Infantry Division survives today as a training organization for the Army at Fort Knox, and the 102nd Infantry Division survives as a training organization for the Reserves at Fort Leonard Wood. Meanwhile the 101st gets to be an active division for the permanently standing army. Them's just the breaks.
see i like the way the marine corps keeps it simple because we're stupid
>1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th marine division/air wing/ logistics group
It helps that the USMC only had 6 divisions at its height.
Because Airborne is just a variation of Infantry, just as Mountain is also a variation of Infantry. That's why we don't have 10th Infantry but we have 10th Mountain. Cavalry and Armor are separate numbering systems, and they traditionally had far fewer divisions. Infantry went all the way up to the 106th Infantry in WW2.
It only exists on paper because they started to stand it up and then never activated it. It was intended to be real, but for some reason never was. There were 7 divisions like that.
T-10 vs T-11
that eagel looks like it suck on a lemon
A good light infantry unit with Division level air assault capabilities and a bit more experience with air assault operations than arguably anyone else that isn't 10th Mountain. Their CAB is about the same size as everyone else's but they also get rides from 160th and other units in the AO.
Also, reminder that all stories ITT are anecdotes from people who likely never went beyond a Platoon level and have a very small slice of experience with other units.
Absolute trash. Was with them for 2.5 years and was never so close to an heroing or drinking myself to death because of how fuckin retarded they were. Leadership was bad all the way up. Air assault was gay. CAV is extra gay. Whoever said there is no motorpool in light units is wrong as fuck, in fact its worse. Last rotation before I left the entire Brigade was raped, TWICE at JRTC. Also Brigade was blacklisted from deployment because war crimes.
t. 2nd Brigade survivor
who raped them?
Think its 1-509. That and whoever else they use for playing OPFOR at Fort Polk. Might be some 10th Mountain people thrown in for shits n gigs etc
Like literal rape?
509th rapes everyone though, no matter what unit goes there.
>Also Brigade was blacklisted from deployment because war crimes.
leadership at 2bde has actually gotten better recently. We swapped out pretty much everyone down to the company level quickly after this last rotation to europe.
I can't speak for everyone, obviously- but from where I'm at, battalion and brigade level has gotten a lot better. On Fridays, the brigade commander will storm around the battalion buildings after 1500 and tell people to go the fuck home and spend time with their families.
I always hear that the BDE commander is going around kicking people out, but he never actually comes by the company office and I still wind up working with my company commander until around 1900 every Friday. I have found life to be around 500% worse since we got back from Europe. Just depends on your company and BN I suppose.
>Also Brigade was blacklisted from deployment because war crimes.
kek you must be in 2nd brigade. i was in 1st during my contract and i remember the CO of my company had to sit us all down in the old dfac to tell us Above the Rest had a tranny in their battalion and under no circumstance we were to offend them and if we see them we should just turn around and walk away. this was around 16' or 17' whenever Trump let the trannies in. idk why people like that dude so much but thats a different conversation
Didn't Trump banned the transgender from entering the army ?
>join army
>no trannies or women in the infantry
>trump elected
>trannies and woman in the infantry
command in chief donny
What does Trump have to do with that you obsessed neverserved?
he could have stopped it all with the stroke of a pen
>Best comic character is 101st
Go read Jungle Jim, the rest of '68 is also great
Hundred & First?
>moar liek...
Hundred & WORST!
>t. eighty second
The posers
I first heard about them when I was reading about 'tiger force' which was a lrrp unit in Vietnam.
Bunch of queerin'
Think they are hot shit but are inferior to the 10th, the most elite formation in the US military. Climb to glory!
What's with the US order of battle these days? I heard they were moving back to division centric operations (Ukraine war definitely suggests doing this).
But right now they only have one armored division and one calvary division and they are both in Third Corps. Is the plan to just scale up really quickly in the event of a peer war?
Trump did stop trannies, dumbfucks.
Anyways, I enjoyed my time in 1/101 2017-2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna993826
Trump's controversial transgender military policy goes into effect
Battlehard
they can probably walk further than i can and probably shoot better than i can and can probably starve slower than i can and they will probably show up someplace where you weren't really thinking they would show up. like all at once.
All their drops in ww2 were failures. Shame they weren't dropped in Arnhem instead.