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From: robinro@ism.isc.com (Robin Roberts)
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Subject: 82nd Airborne nomenclature
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Date: 22 Apr 91 17:05:48 GMT
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From: robinro@ism.isc.com (Robin Roberts)


>From: boebert@SCTC.COM (Earl Boebert)
>Also, how does one properly expand the string 1/501
>(ABN) INF?  I get the Airborne Infantry part, but from previous
>postings on Army TO&E I can't tell whether the 501st is properly
>referred to as a Regiment or a Brigade.

Expand it as 1st Battalion, 501st Regiment.
Officially the 82nd Airborne has three brigades labelled 1, 2 and 3.  However
it popular to use the World War II regiment numbers for the equivalent brigades
for the historical tie-in.  I believe those regiments were 501, 505 and 506.
I will leave the description of the difference between regiments and brigades
to someone with more courage than I.

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