Talk:82nd Airborne Division

Kosovo

During Kosovo War, 82nd (2-505 PIR) was stationed in central Albania (Tirane, capital), and it stayed there until Serbs withdrew. 82nd was first unit to enter Kosovo after the war, but not during the war.

4th Brigade Combat Team

An edit was done in December to update the structure of the division. In this update the 4th Brigade was removed and a battalion of the Brigade was added to the 2nd Brigade. There were no references that, while this is the expected structure change, it has occurred. Current information available says the 4th Brigade is still active and is deployed to Afghanistan.

Unless there is other information to verify this change, should these pages reflect current information instead of what changes are expected to occur in the future?

Mullah Dadullah: Killed in 2007 AND in 2012????

In the third paragraph of the section titled "2010 Haiti Earthquake," we read:

"In February 2012, 4th BCT deployed to Kandahar province. Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, formed an overwhelming force in Kandahar. Zhari district in southern Kandahar is where Dadullah was recruiting a high number of jihadists.... Performing with an almost perfect strategic plan, 4th BCT drove Dadullah and his men out of Kandahar to the Northeastern province of Kunar, where Dadullah was killed by airstrikes."

But countless sources state that Mullah Dadullah had been killed in Helmand 2007. Here are just a few citations:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/12/saturday/index.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghan-taliban/taliban-commander-dadullah-killed-in-afghan-clash-idUSISL29013220070513 https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/05/mullah_dadullah_tali.php https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/meet-the-cruellest-taliban-mullah-dadullah-1842327-2021-08-18

While U.S. military intelligence has a history of killing Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders over and over again, that doesn't appear to be the case here. The ONLY source that says that Dadullah was killed in this 2012 action by the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Airborne is this Wikipedia entry.

There was/is a group called the Mullah Dadullah Front that assassinated a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in the spring of 2012 and perhaps the contributor mistakenly contracted the eponymous organization's name. Nonetheless, I'm still not finding anything about the 4th BCT inflicting "massive casualties among the Taliban" or its "almost perfect strategic plan."

Perhaps this entire paragraph should just be cut until more credible and verifiable information is provided. Also, it should be mentioned that in November 2012, the 4th Brigade Combat Team became the first official Security Force Assistance Brigade, the specialized units that now wear brown berets along with personnel in the Security Force Assistance Command.

Feedback?

2022 deployment to Poland

Mention of this should probably be made here somewhere. E.g. 3,000 more US troops from 82nd Airborne head to Poland amid Ukraine invasion concerns

The paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne will join 1,700 sent earlier this week. ByLuis Martinez and Matt Seyler 11 February 2022 Facts707 (talk) 07:48, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Sinai Desert

There is no information on the presence of the 82nd Airborne Division in the Sinai Desert as part of the MFO which started in 1982. Would be nice to see this appearing into the main article. Ronsteenvoorden (talk) 19:28, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

WWII

I confess I haven't read the whole article - I just dropped in to check something; but it struck me that a lot of the language in this section is not encyclopaedic. The language is loaded and heroic, not NPOV. And there aren't nearly enough citations. MrDemeanour (talk) 18:18, 8 October 2022 (UTC)