Waiting His Turn
October 15th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Mike Morones
A medic with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team prepares to enter a chamber of tear gas during training on Oct. 3, 2011, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Soldiers must periodically show they are proficient at donning and sealing a gas mask under the stress of contact with an irritant such as tear gas. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)
Airborne
September 14th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division parachute after jumping from a C-130 Hercules aircraft over Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 12, 2010. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Rissmiller, U.S. Air Force/Released)
Barber of Combat Outpost Ware
July 13th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, has his head shaved by the light of a flashlight at Combat Outpost Ware Sunday July 11, 2010, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Afghan Workout
April 10th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
United States Army Sgt. John Cook, right, of Colorado Springs, Colo., with 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division, works out at a make-shift gym as a local Afghan boy the soldiers named “Jimmy” watches Monday, April. 5, 2010 at his combat outpost in the Arghandab Valley of Kandahar province in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Popping flares
March 15th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
During a medevac mission, a Black Hawk chase helicopter with the 82nd Airborne, or Task Force Pegasus, fires off flares, which are used as countermeasures against possible enemy heat-seeking weapons, as it circles for security while the medical helicopter on the ground picks up a patient, in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Friday March 5, 2010. Pegasus crews provide the fast medical evacuation of wounded combatants and civilians. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Parachute landing fall
March 1st, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Paratroopers with 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist Brigade), land on a drop zone near Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, on Feb. 12 as part of a training exercise they hope will lead to combined U.S.–Iraqi training jumps. The jumper rolling on his back is performing a “parachute landing fall,” a maneuver that dissipates the energy of impact, avoiding injury to the paratrooper. (Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod, 1/82 AAB, USD-C)
Follow me
February 16th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A U.S. paratrooper from the 82nd airborne carries a sack of rice for a woman at a distribution point at the national stadium in Port-au-Prince on January 31. Quake-hit Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction, aid chiefs and donor nations warned, as homeless, scarred survivors struggled to rebuild their lives. (AFP photo / Thony Belizaire)
It happens in Haiti, too
February 5th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, replace the right windshield on a Humvee after a Haitian child threw a rock at it. The Soldiers are in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help provide earthquake relief.
Humanitarian aid in Haiti
February 5th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Some young children use the plastic bags that contain humanitarian meals as makeshift boots at a survivor camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 21, 2010. Officials estimate that there are as many as 10,000 families living in the camp just below a relief distribution point set up by the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment. DoD photo by Fred W. Baker III
Taina
February 3rd, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Taina, a 12-year-old Haitian girl, screams in pain as Sgt. Jesse Hertzog and other medics from the 1-73rd, 82nd Airborne Division, pour a peroxide solution on her wounded arm at a one-doctor clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Jan. 23. The medics were at the clinic on a "tailgate medicine" mission when Taina was brought in. The young girl had bandages on three of her limbs, and as the medics unwrapped each one, the wounds revealed were more and more severe, culminating in the largest on her left arm. The medics used the peroxide solution to moisten the bandages, which had dried up and adhered to Taina's wounds, and thought that her arm and left leg may have been broken. As they were losing light, all they could do was clean the wound, rewrap it, and ask the doctor at the clinic to get Taina to a hospital as soon as possible.