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Michelle Amos-Wall, center, receives the Silver Star Pin from Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, left, and Command Sgt. Maj. Isaia T. Vimoto Jan. 27, at Fort Bragg. Amos-Wall logged in a minimum of 750 hours last quarter helping out in the 82nd Airborne Division.
Jonathan Williams, Engagement Skills Training instructor, far right, directs Donald Johnson of C & J Auto Sales & Service Center, during virtual weapons training, March 27, at Fort Bragg.The civic leaders joined Leadership Fort Bragg to learn about the home of the Airborne and Special Operations.
Paratroopers, assigned to Bravo Company, 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division breach a building during a squad live fire exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., Apr. 10, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Houston Graham) Courtesy of 307th BEB Facebook
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Maj. Gen. John W. Nicholson, Jr., right, shakes hands with Brig. Gen. Richard D. Clarke following the 82nd Airborne Division change of command ceremony on Fort Bragg, N.C.’s Pike Field, Oct. 3, 2014. During the ceremony, Maj. Gen. Nicholson relinquished command of the Division to Brig. Gen. Clarke. He is slated to take command of Allied Land Command, NATO, Izmir, Turkey.
Maj. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, deputy commander, presented awards to employees on Fort Bragg for their hard work over the last year during the 26th Annual Installation Awards, Nov. 17, at the Pope Training Annex.
The Exchange's Airborne PX hosted a Make a Wish party for Alexia Lawson, a 5 year old who has Tricuspid Atresia, March 5. Alexia is the daughter of staff Sgt. Joshua Lawson and Patricia Lawson, and wanted a Frozen themed party. Her wish, granted through sponsorship and the Make A Wish Foundation, was to go to Disney World.
Photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez/1st BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. PAO
Paratroopers assigned to 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conducted reflexive-fire marksmanship training Sept. 10, at Fort Bragg.
Fathers and daughters dance during the Father Daughter ball at the Fort Bragg Club, Sept. 19.
Photos by Hope Myers/Paraglide.
Spc. Darren Traylor spends with time his wife, Adriana, before deploying Aug. 29, from Simmons Army Airfield. Traylor, is assigned to 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade.
(Photo by Lewis Perkins/Paraglide)
Airborne & Special Ops Museum, Fayetteville, NC.
The Airborne Special Ops Museum tells the story of Army airborne and special operations units from their 1940 origin and movement to the Fayetteville area in March of 1942, through the present. The 59,000 square-foot, 22.5 million dollar museum houses many rare and impressive artifacts, including a C-47 “Skytrain” airplane suspended from the ceiling, complete with a paratrooper in the door. A fully restored CG-4A glider, one of only a handful that remain from WWII, is on display, along with two helicopters, a Sheridan tank, and a complete collection of uniforms, equipment and weapons spanning the sixty-year history of this exciting segment of the armed forces.
Soldiers assigned to the 252nd Armor Regiment demonstrate Army capabilities to members of the Defense Science Study Group, an education study group, June 7, at Fort
Bragg’s Pike Field. The demonstration provides DSSG members with an understanding of military missions, equipment and capabilities and allows those members to use their
insight to improve those capabilities.
The Father Daughter ball held at the Fort Bragg Club June 20 was heavily attended. Fathers in their best suits or dress uniforms escorted their Daughters elegantly dressed in the latest fashions. They danced and mingled while snacking in between on the buffet. Bristol Douglas, 4, far left, dances with her father Major Rob Douglas of the 83ed Civil Affairs Bde.
Pearl Scott, Freedoms Groove Band, sang the national anthem and army song to opening the award ceremony
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks with paratroopers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division as they prepare to jump over Sicily Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, July 10. These paratroopers form the nucleus of America’s global response force, capable of responding to crises worldwide with little to no notice. Carter’s visit included a question and answer session with Soldiers of the XVIII Airborne Corps and capabilities demonstrations from airborne and special operations forces. Carter praised the readiness of the servicemen and women stationed at Fort Bragg, promising a bright future as the very tip of the spear in the nation’s global strategic posture.
SFC Frederick McDuffy of Army Entertainment, is number one to arrive. The U.S. Army Soldiers show for 2014 appeared in Fort Bragg July 19 – 20.Showing their support for the solders, Paul Mitchell The School, in Fayetteville arranged for the members of the 2014 Solders show and crew to have a spa day July 18. Hannah Lucas, admissions leader for Paul Mitchell The School, organized the students to each take one member of the solders show through a hair cuts and treatments, pedicure, manicure, and relaxing face massage.
Command Sgt. Maj. Mitchell L. Rucker, incoming command sergeant major for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, renders a salute to Col. Joseph Ryan, 2nd BCT commander, after assuming responsibility of the brigade combat team during a ceremony held at Fort Bragg, June 18. Upon completing initial entry training, Rucker was assigned as an infantryman to the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment and returned nearly 23 years later to assume the role of the senior noncommissioned officer of the BCT. Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Steven R. England, the regiment’s honorary command sergeant major was also in attendance. England was the unit’s senior enlisted paratrooper early in Rucker’s first term of service.
Spirit of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.) sculpture, also known as Iron Mike, situated in Letchworth State Park at Castile, New York.
Paratroopers, assigned to Bravo Company, 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conduct route clearance operations during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., January 27, 2017.
Airborne Artillerymen, assigned to 1st Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division Artillery, prepare to sling load an M119A3 light howitzer to a CH-47 Chinnok during Loyalty's first Battalion Artillery Readiness test in more than a decade here on Fort Bragg, N.C. 20 April, 2016. Over five days the Paratroopers skills and resolve were put to the test conducting multiple complex fire missions during the day and night like the emergency fire mission, 3-Gun-Raid, out of traverse mission and a 3-hour schedule of fires. (Official 82nd ABN DIVARTY photo by Capt. Joe Bush/ Released)
Soldiers from 50th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 35th Signal Brigade, load a casualty into a UH-60 Black Hawk assigned to 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, March 18. The two units came together to not only give the signal Soldiers an idea of what medical evacuation looks like, but gave Soldiers from All-American DUSTOFF a chance to refine their flight medic skills. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman/ 82nd CAB PAO)
Sgt. Holly Moore, 550th Military Working Dog Detachment, 16th Military Police Brigade, sits with her military working dog partner, Kobus, in his final minutes.
Pfc. Charlie W. Hibbs III, an infantryman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, fires an M2 machine gun during the Battalion's machine gun leaders course held on Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 27, 2016. The White Falcons hosted the machine gun leaders course to familiarize Paratroopers with the maintenance and employment of the machine gun systems and to gain experience as part of a crew served weapons team tasked to deliver effective supporting fires. (82nd Airborne Division photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull)
Paratroopers prepare to jump from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during an airborne operation as part of the Pathfinder Mobile Training Team course at Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 17, 2014.
Spc. Devrin Egipciaco and Spc. Kyle Peterson, both assigned to the Company C of the 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment conduct mechanical breaching training, Aug. 12, at Fort Bragg. During training, Soldiers sharpened their skillset of gaining access to interior and exterior walls.
Col. Stephen G. Smith, left, the outgoing commander of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade, shakes hands with the incoming commander, Col. John L. Rafferty Jr., during the 18th FA Bde. change of command ceremony, June 11, at Fort Bragg.
Sgt. Tania Calderon and Sgt. Jesse Hertzog, instructors at the 82nd Airborne Division Combatives and Advanced Tactics School, demonstrate a self-defense technique for Paratroopers assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Abn. Div. during a self-defense class for female Paratroopers at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 20, 2015.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Joe Berglund, an aircraft loadmaster from the 43rd Operations Support Squadron, conducts preflight checks on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from the 437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, during an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise on Jan. 27, 2015, on Green Ramp, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina. Air Mobility Command's participation illustrates the critical partnership between Mobility Air Forces and the U.S. Army by exercising Joint Forcible Entry: the capability of rapidly introducing forces into hostile environments to conduct operations – whether combat or humanitarian support. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marvin Krause)
Senior Airman Joseph Stansfield, loadmaster, 95th Airlift Squadron, takes part in a Bosslift on a C-130, March 13, to show supervisors and employers of Reserve Airmen
from the 440th Airlift Wing some of the things they do on a daily basis
All About That Ace defeats Team Aloali'i in the Open League Post Volleyball Tournament at Hoskings Physical Fitness Center. Team Aloali'i defeated All About That Ace forcing a second game in the championship were they lost.
Eliza Richards, 4, sits in a military vehicle during the Spring Fling at the Nijmegen Community Center, Friday.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Reilly, an aircraft loadmaster from the 14th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, right, and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Trevor Miller, a jumpmaster safety from the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, conduct equipment safety checks on a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft from the 437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, during an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise on Green Ramp, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina, Jan. 27, 2015. The Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise assesses the 82nd Airborne Division’s deployment readiness tasks for a no-notice deployment—including alert, outload procedures, and deployment—tasks that are necessary to their mission success as the Joint Forcible Entry component of the nation's Global Response Force. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marvin Krause)
Fort Bragg firefighters work with members of the Spring Lake Fire Department to put out fires as part of a biannual controlled burn at Fort Bragg, Dec. 14.
1st Sgt. William Ramos, of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, watches over the safety of 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment servicemembers, on the range at Fort Bragg, Tuesday. Soldiers routinely conduct marksmanship and qualification training to remain mission-ready.
Mothers and daughters in matching outfits made their way to tables decorated with tea cups, tiaras and flowers for the 13th annual Mother Daughter Tea and Fashion Show. SSG Tashiasha Lockhart fixes her daughter's gloves.
Sgt. Cody Smith, an explosive ordnance disposal team leader with the 722nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, drops the puck to start the game between the Carolina Hurricanes and St. Louis Blues, during Military appreciation day at PNC arena Feb 28 2016
Spc. Emmanuel Nogueras, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, gathers his parachute during Joint Operational Access Exercise at Luzon Drop Zone, Feb. 24, 2013. JOAX enables U.S. and Canadian mobility aircrews to train with paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division on projecting combat power in a denied environment.
Photo by Lewis Perkins/Paraglide
Master Sgt. (ret.) Jennifer Loredo and her Family unveil a plaque marking the naming of the Staff Sgt. Edwardo Loredo Child Development Center during a ceremony held at the new facility on Pope Field, Friday. The dedication honored the sacrifice of Loredo, who was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on June 24, 2010. The Fort Bragg Child, Youth and School Services dedicated the hourly-care facility to the memory of the paratrooper, whose Family were patrons of the installation’s child development centers.
Charli Daniels, left, jumps to block a hit from Amanda Tertychny during an Open Volleyball game at Ritz-Epps Physical Fitness Center, March 29. Hot Mess, in green, defeated Hustlers.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is pleased to announce that 1st Lt. Elizabeth Trobaugh, XVIII Airborne Corps, has been awarded a 2014 Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship.
Administered for the U.S. Department of State by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships develop a source of men and women whose academic backgrounds fulfill the skill needs of the State Department and who are dedicated to representing America’s interests abroad.
Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellows receive financial support towards a two-year, full-time master’s degree program in a field related to international affairs and diplomacy such as public policy, international affairs, public administration, and other related academic fields. Fellows participate in one domestic and one overseas internship.
Upon the completion of their master’s degree, they commit to five years of service as a foreign service officer.
Trobaugh graduated from Mills College in 2010 with a B.A. in International Relations and plans to attend Columbia University for her master’s degree.
Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment conduct heavy drop operations at Sicily Drop Zone, Jan. 20. The training enables Soldiers to
enhance artillery proficiency and execute airborne maneuvers.
Participants walk in the 2015 Green Beret Jingle Jog at Fayetteville Technical Community College, Dec. 5, 2015. This year’s race moves to downtown Fayetteville and will include a DJ, awards for best outfit and a visit with the Carolina Panthers cheerleaders.
Spc. Joseph Moncada, right, a paratrooper with Company C, 127th Engineer Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, poses with his neighbors, Sgt. Alpesh Patel, his wife Tonya and their child, March 19. Moncada has been credited by emergency services personnel with saving their child’s life.