US Army 101st Airborne Headquarters

The 101st Airborne Division (“Screaming Eagles”) is an elite modular specialized light infantry division of the United States Army trained for air assault operations. It is the most potent and the most tactically mobile of the U.S. Army’s divisions. It has been referred to as “the tip of the spear.” The 101st Airborne at a moment’s notice is able to plan, coordinate, and execute brigade-size air assault operations capable of seizing key terrain in support of operational objectives. The 101st Airborne Division is capable of working in austere environments with limited or degraded infrastructure its unique battlefield mobility and high level of training have kept the 101st Airborne Division in the vanguard of America’s land combat forces in recent conflicts. More recently, the 101st Airborne has been performing foreign internal defense and counter-terrorism operations within Iraq and Afghanistan.