Breaking the 57 year tradition, what is the intention of the US military to reorganize the airborne

Mondo Military Updated on 2024-02-04

In recent years, with the gradual release of the global greenhouse effect, the melting rate of Arctic glaciers has accelerated significantly, as a terra nullius without international law, the strategic military value of the Arctic belt has been valued by many countries, and the most fierce competition is the two major hegemons in the world, Russia and the United States.

The Russian Arctic Combat Brigade T-80BVM tank shoots between Russia and the United States between the march, Da Mao started significantly earlier, Sweden and Finland are neutral countries in the last century, and Russia has not deployed a large number of troops here, and the two professional Arctic combat brigades are the 200th Arctic Brigade and the 80th Arctic Brigade, but with Finland's accession to NATO and Sweden's imminent accession to NATO, Russia's defense pressure in the Arctic region has increased significantly, according to "Izvestia" on July 4, 2023, Russia is ready to merge the two brigades and form an independent Arctic division on the basis of this.

Soldiers of the 11th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) of the 2nd Airborne Division stand at the Pershing Parade GroundIn response, the U.S. imperialists renamed the Alaska Command the 11th Airborne Division in the summer of 2022, breaking a 50-year tradition of no new divisional unitsThe two brigade-level combat teams originally stationed in Alaska, namely the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team and the 4th Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division, were transferred to the 11th Airborne Division and reorganized into the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team and the 2nd Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 11th Airborne Division, respectively. Up to now, the 11th Airborne Division has two infantry brigades, one army aviation battalion, one support battalion, and one artillery battalion.

Badge of the 11th Airborne Division

The reconnaissance unit of the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, the 25th Infantry Division, and the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, were transferredAccording to the reorganization plan of the 11th Airborne Division, the Stryker wheeled armored vehicles of the brigade were to be stripped and replaced with BVS10 Viking all-terrain vehicles similar to those of the British Marine Corps.

The 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, nicknamed the "Arctic Wolf", has a brigade headquarters, a brigade headquarters company, a reconnaissance battalion of the 5th Cavalry Regiment and the 5th Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, two infantry battalions of the 1st Battalion of the 5th Infantry Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 24th Infantry Regiment, and an artillery battalion of the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Field Artillery Regiment, in addition to the 70th Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 25th Brigade Support Battalion.

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 5th Infantry Regiment "Lynx" of the 1st Brigade Combat Team conduct company live fire at the Yukon training area in AlaskaIt is worth mentioning that although the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team is nicknamed the "Arctic Wolf", during the rotation training at the Fort Irwin National Training Center of the US Army, it was evaluated by the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the American version of the "Red Army" sparring unit as the worst opponent ever. Some netizens even turned the military flag of the First Brigade "Arctic Wolf" into a "husky", which was extremely sarcastic.

11th Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 2nd Airborne DivisionThe 11th Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade is an Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army, which is based at Fort Richardson, near Anchorage, Alaska, and is the only Airborne Brigade Combat Team in the Pacific Theater, and also the newest Airborne Brigade combat team. The U.S. Army currently has six airborne brigades, the others are four brigades of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 173rd Separate Airborne Brigade Combat Team.

The 11th Airborne Division held an all-female parachute competitionCompared with the 1st Infantry Brigade's crotch pulling, the 2nd Airborne Infantry Brigade is relatively full of martial arts, deployed to Iraq in 2006 and 2009, Afghanistan in 2010, and Kosovo in 2014, during which 13 paratroopers were killed.

The 2nd Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team, nicknamed "Sparta", has a brigade headquarters and brigade headquarters company, a reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Squadron of the 40th Cavalry Regiment, two infantry battalions of the 1st Battalion of the 501st Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the 509th Infantry Regiment, and an artillery battalion of the 2nd Battalion of the 377th Field Artillery Regiment, in addition to the 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 725th Brigade Support Battalion.

The Army Aviation Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division*** Hovering over the 11th Airborne Division is known as the Air Task Force, consisting of the 1st Battalion of the 25th Aviation Regiment for reconnaissance and assault and the 1st Battalion of the 52nd Aviation Regiment for general general support. The reconnaissance and attack battalion is equipped with 24 AH-64E armed Apache *** general support aviation battalions, 8 UH-60 air command and CH-47F Chinook transport aircraft, and 15 HH-60M Black Hawk medical rescue aircraft.

Transport of the 11th Airborne Division ***Summary: As a newly formed unit, the 11th Airborne Division has not yet been fully formed in terms of establishment, compared with the Russian Arctic Brigade equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery, there are obvious differences in equipment, of course, Da Mao's Arctic Brigade is not invincible, it is said that as a rotating force on the battlefield in Ukraine, the 200th Arctic Brigade was repaired quite miserably, and the commanders of the independent rocket artillery battalions were killed, let's wait for these two to do it with real guns and then evaluate it.

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