The Pentagon will deploy elements of the elite Army 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East.
A source at the Pentagon familiar with the plans confirmed that the division would be deployed, though they didn’t provide other details on the plans.
The 82nd Airborne is one of the most renowned forces in the U.S. military. Members of the 82nd Airborne were among the U.S. forces deployed to France ahead of the D-Day invasion of Normandy; since then, they’ve been involved in the Gulf War in the 1990s, conflicts related to the War on Terror, and a series of more recent deployments to the Middle East in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan….
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