What's the difference between the 82nd and 101st Airborne?

[PsychoAndy]

Is the only difference in how they get to places? Does the 101st Air Assault (i.e. gets into a blackhawk and gets dropped off), while the 82nd parachutes in from a C-17?

 

[Kadarin]

What's the difference? 19.

(sorry, couldn't resist being a smartass.. carry on )

 

[chiwawa626]

BOB - 101st kicks ASS!

 

[MedicBob]

The 101st and 82nd are both Airborne. During WWII they both were parachute divisions. The 101st switched to Helos, Air Assault, around Vietnam time.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
What's the difference? 19.

(sorry, couldn't resist being a smartass.. carry on )

 

[justint]

82nd is an airborne divison(Parachuting from planes). The 101st is an Air Assault division (transported in by helicopter) with lots of attack helicopter support. They have something like 70 Apaches.

 

[JOSEPHLB]

and they are from two totally different bases..