The 82nd Airborne Division Association is for anyone who ever served in the 82nd Airborne Division, and anyone who is currently serving on active duty on jump status; or, has ever served in any of the uniformed services on either jump or glider status and was honorably discharged. The Association was organized in England, prior to the Normandy invasion (1944). We have members who have served with the 11th, 13th, 17th, 82nd, 101st Airborne Divisions; 187th, 503rd, 508th Airborne Regimental Combat Teams; 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) as well as troopers from Special Forces, Airborne Rangers, Marine Corps Recon, Navy SEALS, and Air Force Special Tactics personnel. more
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Some veterans bear visible
signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in
the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone
together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg--or perhaps another sort of
inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except
in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear
no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking |
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