FOSTEX Embroidered Baseball Cap 82nd AIRBORNE. OLIVE GREEN

Embroidered 82nd AIRBORNE Baseball Cap

Material: 100% cotton.
The 82nd Airborne Division is a United States Army airborne infantry division, specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas with the United States Department of Defense requirement to "respond to crisis situations anywhere in the world within 18 hours. Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Airborne Division is the most strategically mobile division in the US Army. Some journalists have reported that the 82nd Airborne Division is the best-trained light infantry division in the world. Most recently, the 82nd Airborne has conducted operations in Iraq, advising and assisting Iraqi security forces.

The division was constituted, originally as the 82nd Division, in the National Army on August 5, 1917, shortly after the American entry into World War I. It was organized on August 25, 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia and later served with distinction on the Western Front in the final months of World War I. Because its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for its famous "AA" shoulder patch. The division then served in World War II where, in August 1942, it was reconstituted as the first airborne division in the U.S. Army and fought in numerous campaigns throughout the war.