US Army 101st Airborne Division 'fully prepared' to cross into Ukraine, deployed 3 miles away from border

[tankgunner]

82nd have to wait. After 101, next is 100, then follow by 99.

82 have to wait a while.

That's going to be a long wait sia

 

[dareto2020]

Lol..... Let's see if USA can afford to play with Russia.

ya lor... usa have NOT play and ..
pudding already goes from
3-day special mil ops to
months long ops to
partial mob for 100+k russie to
threatening going nuclear... haha

what will usa play cause pudding to do??? haha

 

[TopGun]

with 4600 people without air support, artillery and intelligence.
It is pure suicide

LoL. U really think that they fight wo support meh? Not the Russian army leh.

 

[fascist]

What about the 82nd?

Need them for the upcoming conflict in the Pacific

 

[cute_togepi]

with 4600 people without air support, artillery and intelligence.
It is pure suicide

You think only the 101st is there?

 

[ballastic90]

Who will win ?

 

[kewl2003]

and money printer go brr brr brr

walau usa just anyhow print money to fuel wars knn

 

[Zorroh]

The end is near.

 

[radish]

 

[nasfieldjohn]

When puddin goin to press the buttons?

 

[radish]

putin maybe bohosay riao...

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/vladimir-putin-could-showing-signs-220000320.html

 

[worcer]

Band of brother...

 

[PC-User]

Siao liao loh. Got money 好 quickly spend loh!

 

[chongquan82]

Oh no... Frontline with alien invasion losing ground

USA has to send in reinforcement

China very soon need to deploy their reinforcement as well

 

[gnoes85]

Your kind must be head spoil. Confirm u 39% talk about pap destroying Singapore.

U failed comprehension or what.

 

[radish]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elite-u-troops-practice-war-152214468.html
Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania — The U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe for the first time in almost 80 years amid soaring tension between Russia and the American-led NATO military alliance. The light infantry unit, nicknamed the "Screaming Eagles," is trained to deploy on any battlefield in the world within hours, ready to fight.

CBS News joined the division's Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, and Colonel Edwin Matthaidess, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, on a Black Hawk helicopter for the hour-long ride to the very edge of NATO territory — only around three miles from Romania's border with Ukraine.

From the moment Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, his forces have advanced northward from the Crimean Peninsula, a Ukrainian region that Moscow illegally seized control of in 2014. For more than seven months, Russian troops have tried to push along the Black Sea coast into the Kherson region, aiming to capture the key Ukrainian port cities of Mykolaiv and Odesa.

Their goal is to cut off all Ukrainian access to the sea, leaving the country and its military forces landlocked.

That threat, so close to NATO territory in Romania, is why one of America's most elite air assault divisions has been sent in, with some heavy equipment.

"We're ready to defend every inch of NATO soil," Lubas told CBS News. "We bring a unique capability, from our air assault capability… We're a light infantry force, but again, we bring that mobility with us, for our aircraft and air assaults."

Skirting northward along Romania's Black Sea coast, the Black Hawk eventually touched down at a forward operating site where U.S. and Romanian troops were pounding targets during a joint ground and air assault exercise.

The tank rounds and artillery fire were real. The drill was meant to recreate the battles Ukraine's forces are fighting every day against Russian troops, just across the border. The war games so close to that border are a clear message to Russia and to America's NATO allies, that the U.S. Army is here.

"The real meaning for me, to have the American troops here, is like if you were to have allies in Normandy before any enemy was there," Romanian Major General Lulian Berdila told CBS News, referring to the landmark World War II battle on France's north coast. The American forces have been establishing a garrison at the Romanian military's air base.

In all, about 4,700 soldiers from the 101st Airborne's home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have been deployed to reinforce NATO's eastern flank.

Matthaidess told CBS News that he and his troops were the closest American forces to the fighting in Ukraine. From their vantage point, they've been "closely watching" the Russian forces, "building objectives to practice against" and conducting drills that "replicate exactly what's going on" in the war.

"It keeps us on our toes," he said.

The "Screaming Eagles" commanders told CBS News repeatedly that they are always "ready to fight tonight," and while they're there to defend NATO territory, if the fighting escalates or there's any attack on NATO, they're fully prepared to cross the border into Ukraine.

 

[radish]

The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) ("Screaming Eagles")[1] is a light infantry division of the United States Army that specializes in air assault operations.[2] It can plan, coordinate, and execute multiple battalion-size air assault operations to seize terrain. These operations can be conducted by mobile teams covering large distances, fighting behind enemy lines, and working in austere environments with limited or degraded infrastructure.[3][4][5] Its unique battlefield mobility and high level of training have kept it in the vanguard of U.S. land combat forces in recent conflicts:[6] for example, foreign internal defense and counterterrorism operations in Iraq, in Afghanistan,[7][8][9] and in Syria, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.

Established in 1918, the 101st Division was first constituted as an airborne unit in 1942.[10] During World War II, it gained renown for its role in Operation Overlord (the D-Day landings and airborne landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France); Operation Market Garden; the liberation of the Netherlands; and its action during the Battle of the Bulge around the city of Bastogne, Belgium. During the Vietnam War, the 101st Airborne Division fought in several major campaigns and battles, including the Battle of Hamburger Hill in May 1969. In mid-1968, the division was reorganized and redesignated as an airmobile division; in 1974, as an air assault division. The titles reflect the division's shift from airplanes to helicopters as the primary method of delivering troops into combat.

At the height of the War on Terror, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) had over 200 aircraft.[11] This shrank to just over 100 aircraft with the inactivation of the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade in 2015,[11][3] making it no different in configuration from the Army's other light infantry divisions. In 2019, media reports suggested the Army was working to restore the 101st's aviation capabilities so it can return to lifting an entire brigade in one air assault operation.[3]

Division headquarters is at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Many current members of the 101st are graduates of the U.S. Army Air Assault School, which is co-located with the division. The school is known as one of the Army's most difficult courses; only about half of those who begin it graduate.[12]

The Screaming Eagles have been referred to as "the tip of the spear" by U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates,[13] and the most potent and tactically mobile of the U.S. Army's divisions by General Edward C. Meyer, then Chief of Staff of the Army.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division

 

[CheeKeong108]

About time US homeland get tested for war

 

[hwbest]

Calling the bluff here first

 

[TakKiu]

Faster... Still waiting.