Ultimately when it comes to being Airborne I want to have
the most exciting “Airborne” experience. Here are a few of
my positive experiences that I have every single year at
Oklahoma D-Day.
I love rolling out in the busses packed to the brim with my
fellow troopers. Every bump, every tree branch and every
pothole that shakes the bus and everyone on it which starts
the morning off right for me thinking about German flak
cannons hitting us. Then jumping off the bus one at a time
makes me think of the guys jumping out of the C-47. That
is a positive “Airborne” experience.
Every year at game on we move out to our objectives, being
as quite as possible, taking the least direct route to avoid
detection. Sometimes we run into an ambush waiting for us,
sometimes we walk right onto the objective with no resistance
and sometimes it is a great fight. That is a positive “Airborne”
experience.
The 82nd Airborne divides into Regiments that historically
match the Regiments used during DDay in World War 2. We
have our flags, our distinct Regiment markings and every troop
bonds closely with and wants to fight alongside their Regiment.
What is great is around noon, when many people break for lunch
in the Dead Zone, there is still a lot of Airborne on the field and
Regiments begin to mix together and work and fight side by side.
Hearing war stories of how “a couple guys from our Regiment
and their Regiment worked together and took ‘that’ objective,”
is a positive “Airborne” experience.
Knowing that the 82nd Airborne doesn’t have an assigned objective
to hold the entire day, and knowing that we are a mobile unit that
is used to assault and capture objectives, and knowing that I can
give a call and in 5 minutes the whole division, no matter where
they are on the field, can move out, locked and loaded to a new
objective is a positive “Airborne” experience.
POSEY
COMMANDER
82nd ABN
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