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26 Mar

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With all the recent changes to @USArmy uniforms, we're hoping @16thSMA considers bringing back the "pocket patch."

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In the 15 years after WWII, troops from the airborne regiments in that war started wearing patches that indicated their regiments on the left breast pocket.

These were not Army-recognized insignia, but rather Soldier-designed patches.

Check out this 504th PIR patch.

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For example: Note the 508th PIR pocket patch in this 1952 pic on Fort Bragg. This is a patch created by a Soldier named John LeVique and then recognized as symbolic of the spirit of the 508.

These troops are wearing the actual 508th Insignia on their left shoulder.

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15 Mar

Everyday at noon throughout #WomensHistoryMonth we are highlighting another woman serving in the 18th Airborne Corps today.

If you've been following the series, by now you know that we have some really impressive Soldiers. Case in point: Saleena Dodson.

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Saleena is an Army Sergeant, an active duty logistics specialist. But you can call her Dr. Dodson: last year she earned a PhD in epidemiology from Temple in her spare time.

We told Saleena's story this past summer, but it's even more inspirational than we understood.

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So, how did this Soldier achieve such an incredible academic feat while serving? Let's back up.

Saleena grew up in a rough neighborhood on Walnut Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey.

That's her on the right at age 4.

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6 Mar

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In its 79th year, the 101st Airborne Division is once again out front for the Nation, sending medics to Chicago and Orlando to support the federal government's efforts to vaccinate our most vulnerable Americans.

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This is in concert with the broad sweep of 101 history. Since inception, the Screaming Eagles have stood at the knife's edge of military innovation & National defense. But more than that, the Screaming Eagles have long served as a critical actor within American culture

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Starting in 1942, the 101st pioneered the concept of vertical envelopment, an innovation the division designed and developed and has been improving on ever since.

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27 Feb

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THE CRONKITE MOMENT

#TDIDCH: February 27, 1968 - Until the shocking North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in January 1968, Walter Cronkite, the Nation's most trusted reporter and anchor of CBS Evening News, believed what his government told him about the war in Vietnam.

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Cronkite, of course, covered the war from the US but made four trips to the front lines in 1967. He saw Vietnam as a necessary brushfire fight against communism.

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Cronkite's nightly newscasts helped shape public opinion about the war [the level of influence Cronkite had within the US is a subject of debate]. Walter generally accepted the official statements of General Westmoreland
and President LBJ without much scrutiny.

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26 Feb

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30 years ago today, on Day 3 of the Desert Storm Ground War, the 18th Airborne turned its spearhead attack northeast and entered the Euphrates River valley.

It was among the most momentous days of combat in the Corps' post-WWII history.

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The since-deactivated 24th Infantry Division, fighting as the 18th Airborne's heavy armored division, was barreling across open desert as the lead Corps element. Large Iraqi Army units were surrendering en masse. The end of the war was in sight.

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Then, late morning, the first obstacle on Tuesday, February 26, 1991: an out-of-season "shamal" (a sandstorm caused by a rush of hot, dry wind) kicked up thick clouds of swirling dust that rendered our thermal-imaging equipment completely useless.

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22 Feb

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Here is a message from Lieutenant General Erik Kurilla, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, regarding the SHARP component of today's Dragon's Lair, Episode 3.

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“Today the command team, along with a panel of experts with experience on sexual assault and sexual harassment, observed seven Soldier presentations on ideas to revise or reinforce the Army’s SHARP program and end these twin corrosives.

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"These presentations were powerful, imaginative, and bold. Two of these Soldiers had emotionally wrenching personal accounts that inspired their ideas.

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