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The present XVIII Airborne Corps was constituted in the Regular Army on 14 January 1942, five weeks after the entry of the United States into World War II, as the II Armored Corps, and was activated on 17 January 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana, under the command of Major General William Henry Harrison Morris, Jr.
The 18th Fires Brigade held a ceremony on 16 October 2014, removing the patch of the 82nd Airborne Division and donning the 18th Field Artillery Brigade patch, to signify its increased responsibility to provide long range field artillery support to the four Divisions in the XVIII Airborne Corps, and officially change its name to the 18th Field ...
On the first day of the Gulf War 24 February 1991, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) began its attack with its Boeing AH-64 Apaches, Bell AH-1 Cobras, 60 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks and 40 Boeing CH-47 Chinooks augmented by the XVIII Airborne Corps' 18th Aviation Brigade and began lifting the 1st Brigade into what became Forward ...
President Joe Biden nominated Maj. Gen. Gregory K. Anderson for promotion to lieutenant general and as the replacement for current 18th Airborne Corps commander Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue.
FORT LIBERTY — The 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty published a memo over the weekend that says soldiers on staff duty have to sleep for at least four consecutive hours.
The battalion participated in combat operations in Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury) in November 1983, Panama (Operation Just Cause) in December 1989, and in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO) (Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm) and was subordinate to the 525th MI Brigade (CEWI) (ABN), as part of the XVIII Airborne Corps ...
The general was Lt. Gen. Robert H. York, senior commander of the 18th Airborne Corps’ and post. Bell said York shook his hand, introduced himself and put him at ease. Soon, York was a regular.
The 18th Air Support Operations Group is a combat support group of the United States Air Force.It is located at Pope Field, North Carolina.The group was originally the 18th Air Support Communications Squadron and served in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of Operations during World War II as an air communications squadron.