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11th Airborne Division soldiers load a Q-53 radar system onto a C-17 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska on September 11, 2024. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hunter Hites
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.
In a May 5, 2022 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth announced that in the summer of 2022, the U.S. Army Alaska headquarters would be redesignated as the 11th Airborne Division, and the two Brigade Combat Teams in Alaska, the 1st Brigade Combat Team and 4th Brigade Combat Team 25th Infantry Division ...
In 2024 elements of the 11th Airborne Division, and two Multi-domain Task Forces (the 1st MDTF, and the 3rd MDTF) were rapidly deployed to Shemya Island, Alaska in the western Aleutian island chain, in response to Russian air and maritime activity. [517] See Arctic strategy. Force structure changes
US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” amid an expected increase in Russian and Chinese military exercises in ...
Brian Spencer Eifler (born 30 June 1968) is a United States Army lieutenant general who has served as the deputy chief of staff for personnel of the United States Army (G-1) since August 2024. He served as the first commanding general of the recently reactivated 11th Airborne Division and the Deputy Commander of Alaskan Command from 2021 to ...
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
The 11th Airborne Division Artillery is an inactive field artillery unit of the United States Army. ... This page was last edited on 27 August 2024, at 11:37 (UTC).