Soldiers across Fort Bragg Train for Short-notice Deployments
The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. | Jan 07, 2017 | by Amanda Dolasinski
Within hours of an early morning call, thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division swarmed Fort Bragg on Friday to draw a rifle, don a parachute and prepare for a simulated combat jump into Europe as part of a deployment readiness exercise.
The exercise, conducted quarterly, tests the paratroopers' ability to deploy rapidly from Fort Bragg to anywhere in the world on short notice for combat or humanitarian operations. Once a notice is given, paratroopers are required to be ready in as little as 18 hours as part of the Global Response Force.
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