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The 11th Airborne Division ("Arctic Angels" [1]) is a United States Army combined forces between air assault infantry and airborne forces based in Alaska.. Currently, this unit specializes in air assault and airborne operations, cold-weather warfare, combined arms, maneuver warfare, and urban warfare.
The Army sent elements of the 11th Airborne Division to Shemya Island, Alaska on September 12 in response to the planned drills as a show of “ready, lethal force,” according to the Army statement.
On 6 June 2022, the 1st Stryker BCT and 4th Infantry BCT(A), 25th ID were transferred to the reactivated 11th Airborne Division as part of the US Army's new arctic strategy and to help boost morale among units stationed in Alaska. [1] [2] These two brigades have been redesignated 1st Infantry BCT and 2nd Infantry BCT(A) respectively.
The 11th Airborne Division will be one of just 12 divisions that make up the U.S. Army.
US Army Alaska order of battle Staff Sgt. Timothy Bennett, a cavalry scout with Blackjack Troop, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, packs his parachute up after a night airborne training jump at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 8 December 2015.
1st Battalion (Airborne), 188th Infantry; 1st Battalion (Airborne), 511th Infantry; For larger exercises the 11th "borrowed" units from the 2nd Infantry Division, also stationed at Fort Benning. At the end of June 1965 the personnel and equipment of the 11th AAD(T) and the 2nd Infantry Division were merged to become the 1st Cavalry Division ...
Every year, about 15,000 students perform five jumps from a live aircraft before graduating from the United States Army’s Airborne School, each depending on a parachute to get them safely to the ...
11th Airborne Division "Arctic Angels" at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. 82nd Airborne Division "All American" at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) "Screaming Eagles" at Fort Campbell, Kentucky