Recently reading the headlines about Band of Brothers coming from HBO tho Netflix and it got me thinking:
– how does the US military divide up it’s soldiers? (Eg regiment vs troop vs platoon vs squadron)
– are there different rules for each branch of the military?
– I’ve only ever heard of the 101st airborne division but not other ones… Was there a 100th division? 99th division, etc? Why is the 101st so famous?
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The US Army airborne divisions are just special types of infantry divisions. They are numbered by age as they were formed. So before the 101st airborne division were formed the 100th infantry division formed up and they were followed by the 102nd infantry division. Actually the 101st were formed as an infantry division during the end of WWI but when they were activated for WWII they were given paratrooper training along with the 82nd division. The Band of Brothers series even shows this multiple times as the company trains for and spends most of their time as infantry. And in the deployment at the Battle of the Bulge they even say that they are supposed to be surrounded because they are the airborne as they walk into battle. So the 101st is an infantry division which have specialized in parachuting and fighting behind enemy lines.
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