Bravo Company of 1st Battalion 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment conducting live fire training with Nato allies at range PL1 in Estonia today 11 May 2021. (U.S. Army Photo by: Staff Sgt. Dustin Miller)

Two Paratroopers with assigned with 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, pull security as they await for aerial transportation provided by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, during an air assault mission in support of Operation Red Fury, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. (U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza.Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Paratroopers assigned with 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, move to their chalk number in the wood line of Pike's Field as rotor wash from a UH-60 black hawk caused a dust cloud. The UH-60’s are assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, in support of Operation Red Fury. The 1-508th PIR will conduct an air assault into their objective. The training helped to increase the unit’s interoperability between the ground and aviation units, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. (U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)

Paratroopers, 1/508th PIR, 4th BCT, 82nd Airborne Division, return from a patrol in the Maywand District on the border of Kandahar and Heldman provinces, Afghanistan on June 29. (Army photo by Spc. Matthew T. Littel, 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

CH Monahan, 1-508th PIR picking up 800 bandanas for Soldiers in his unit.

Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, jump from a C-17 Galaxy aircraft May 5 over Holland Drop Zone, Fort Bragg, N.C. The Paratroopers will be part of the first active duty brigade combat team to fully partner with Afghan national security forces as combat advisors when they deploy to Afghanistan later this summer. by Sgt. Stephen Decatur

Paratroopers from 1st battalion, 508th parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, assaulted an objective with aviation support from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. This training further enhanced the interoperability between the ground and aviation units. (U.S. Army Photo by SSG Christopher Freeman)

Staff Sgt. John Carson, infantrymen, assigned to Bravo Co. 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, checks the wind knots of the landing zone. The landing zone will be use to provide more than 400 Paratroopers to execute an air assault mission with aerial support provided by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. (U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)

12- A Soldier from the 508th Military Police Battalion prepares to plant a tree at the John D. “Bud” Hawk Education Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., April 17, 2013. The tree planting session was just one of the events sponsored by JBLM in support of Earth Day. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jennifer Spradlin, 19th Public Affairs Detachment)

photos by Sgt. Stephen Decatur/4th BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. PAO

Sgt. 1st Class Roy Frazier, left, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and 1st Lt. Timothy Dill, 1st Battalion, 508th PIR, 4th BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. review Pashto words written in the naskh writing system June 10 on Fort Bragg. The brigade sent paratroopers to a Pashto course to make them more effective at working with their Afghan counterparts when they deploy as combat advisors later this summer.

Lt. Col. Travis McIntosh, commander, 2nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, speaks to Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment prior to air assault operations, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. Once the paratroopers were briefed on the operation, aviation assets from the CAB transported equipment and personnel to their objective. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman/ 82nd CAB PAO)

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza. Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

German Army Sergeant Martin Junkes, Jumpmaster and U.S. Army Sergeant First Class, Donny Hagan, a Platoon Sergeant with Headquarters and Headquarters Company 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, chat while waiting for take-off during the 16th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Toy Drop, December 7, 2013, at Pope Field, N.C. U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Command (Airborne) in conjunction with U.S. Army Special Operations Command, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg and Allied Forces, is conducting Operation Toy Drop during the world's largest annual Combined-Joint airborne operations training and to support local families/charities in need with toys during the Holiday Season. (U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Sean A. Foley)(Released)

Paratroopers from 1st battalion, 508th parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, assaulted an objective with aviation support from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. This training further enhanced the interoperability between the ground and aviation units.(U.S. Army Photo by SSG Christopher Freeman)

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza.Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza.Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Spc. Timothy Mailliard, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment Aid Station, prepares an intrevenous bag for his patient during the Expert Field Medical Badge competition being held at the new Medical Simulation Training Center's MOUT City course from Sept. 21 through Oct. 10.

photo by Lucille Anne Newman/Paraglide

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza. Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

U.S. Army veterans Cpl. George Shenkle, center right, of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division and Sgt. Isaac Phillips, center left, of the 4th Infantry Division, salute the flag June 4 during the playing of the U.S. national anthem while at a ceremony at the Rex Combs Memorial in the Normandy region. More than 380 service members from Europe and affiliated D-Day historical units are participating in the 71st anniversary as part of Joint Task Force D-Day 71.

Army Spc. Barry K. Dalrymple, 3rd Platoon, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, searches a local civilian entering one of the towns involved in Operation Jam Morad, Sept. 11, 2007. (US Army photo by Spc. Nathan W. Hutchison/22nd MPAD, released)

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John Coats, a 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division World War II Veteran, listens to remarks during Market Garden 75th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony in Groesbeek, The Netherlands, September 17, 2019. The ceremony honored the Paratroopers from all Allied nations who jumped into Groesbeek in 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden, the largest Airborne operation in the history of Warfare.

508th Military Police Detention Battalion Change of Command Ceremony with outgoing commander LTC Christopher Hodl, and incoming commander LTC E.J. Kesselring, June 24th, 2021 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (US Army Photo by Sid Lee, Enterprise Multimedia Center, JBLM).

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza. Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza. Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Sgt. Rafael Mantilla, right, 364th Quartermaster Company, 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 82nd Sustainment Brigade, observes Pvt. Walter Ciucevich, Company A, 508th Special Troops Battalion, as he lines the lift of the rough terrain container handler with the cargo container during his hands-on training session on the vehicle his unit may be receiving soon.

photo by Lucille Anne Newman/Paraglide

Specialist Sean Shanahan (bottom), a military policeman with the 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd MP Brigade, puts Cpl. Justin Papke, a mechanic with the 508th MP Bn., 42nd MP Bde., in an arm bar at the combatives facility on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Feb. 15 during grappling matches with other Soldiers of his brigade who aspire to travel with the brigade’s combatives team to JBLM’s installation-wide tournament in April. Shanahan and Papke both trained with the team last year and are determined to best those performances. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Christopher M. Gaylord)

Paratroopers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division finish a timed ruck march wearing their chemical protective masks during the brigade’s Best Squad Competition held March 6 on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The competition tested the paratroopers’ physical fitness, grit and technical skill through a series of tasks during a seven-mile ruck march.

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza.Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Paratroopers from 1st battalion, 508th parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, assaulted an objective with aviation support from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. This training further enhanced the interoperability between the ground and aviation units. (U.S. Army Photo by SSG Christopher Freeman)

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza.

Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Justin Jordan, right, from the 508th MPs, runs down 63rd Ord. quarterback, Pfc. Derron Jenkins during a flag football game between the two unbeaten teams at Cowan Stadium October 11, 2011 at JBLM. The 508th MPs came out on top 18-12 over the 63rd. Jordan recently competed in the Military Police Warfighter Competition in Missouri. Jim Bryant/NW Guardian

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SGT Aaron Geer, right, of the 1 508th Airborne had “Rock” Merritt autograph a commemorative bayonet engraved with the 508th Airborne insignia.

Paratroopers assigned with 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, load onto a UH-60 black hawk assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, during Operation Red Fury. The 1-508th PIR will conduct an air assault into their objective. The training helped to increase the unit’s interoperability between the ground and aviation units, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 4. (U.S. Army Photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)

The Soldiers from the 42nd Regional Support Group, Somerville; 117th Combat Support Sustainment Battalion, Woodbridge; 50th Chemical Company, Somerset; 508th Military Police Company, Teaneck; and 154th Quartermaster Company, Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, conducted individual tactical training from qualifying with weapons, to unit team building at the post’s Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTAF) where they were challenged in combat like conditions.

The troops qualified with their weapons and trained at their jobs skills during the 15-day training period that culminated at the CACTAF training area on July 18. Command and staff members of all the organizations also participated in a simulation exercise to practice their assigned missions for contingency operation in a foreign country.

Photos by Master Sgt. David Moore, JFHQ-PA

The Soldiers from the 42nd Regional Support Group, Somerville; 117th Combat Support Sustainment Battalion, Woodbridge; 50th Chemical Company, Somerset; 508th Military Police Company, Teaneck; and 154th Quartermaster Company, Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, conducted individual tactical training from qualifying with weapons, to unit team building at the post’s Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTAF) where they were challenged in combat like conditions.

The troops qualified with their weapons and trained at their jobs skills during the 15-day training period that culminated at the CACTAF training area on July 18. Command and staff members of all the organizations also participated in a simulation exercise to practice their assigned missions for contingency operation in a foreign country.

Photos by Master Sgt. David Moore, JFHQ-PA

Paratroopers assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division prepare to secure an objective during a combined arms live fire exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 17, 2015. The CALFX was the culmination of months of training the company has undertaken to prepare itself for its upcoming support to 1st BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. during a Joint Readiness Training Center rotation at Fort Polk, La. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Anthony Hewitt/Released)

Two-year-old Marques Oliver switches basketballs while his father Staff Sgt. Joseph Oliver, Company C, 508th Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, holds on to him at a basket hoop game at the Fort Bragg Fairgrounds Saturday.

photo by Lucille Anne Newman/Paraglide

Cutline: Sportsmanship abounds following the championship game of the Fort Bragg Morale, Welfare and Recreation-sponsored Korean War Memorial Softball Tournament held Saturday at the Ritz-Epps Sports Complex softball fields. The championship game between Code Red and the Devils of 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, ended in a shootout, with Code Red coming out on top 29-21. Photo by Spc. Jeremy Crisp/XVIII Airborne Corps PAO.

U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster IIIs and C-130s wait for Paratroopers to load during Exercise Panther Storm at Green Ramp on Fort Bragg, N.C., August 11, 2020. Panther Storm is a brigade-level training exercise designed to sharpen Paratroopers ability to deploy anywhere in the world within 18 hours, fight and win against U.S. adversaries.

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza.

Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.

Sky Soldiers of the 1-508th/173rd ABCT returned to Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and were welcomed home by Family and friends Feb. 11. Learn more about events and activities in Vicenza on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGVicenza.

Photo by Grant Sattler, USAG Vicenza PAO.