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During Kosovo War, 82nd (2-505 PIR) was stationed in central Albania (Tirane, capital), and it stayed there until Serbs withdrew. 82nd was first unit to enter Kosovo after the war, but not during the war.

An edit was done in December to update the structure of the division. In this update the 4th Brigade was removed and a battalion of the Brigade was added to the 2nd Brigade. There were no references that, while this is the expected structure change, it has occurred. Current information available says the 4th Brigade is still active and is deployed to Afghanistan.

Unless there is other information to verify this change, should these pages reflect current information instead of what changes are expected to occur in the future?

In the third paragraph of the section titled "2010 Haiti Earthquake," we read:

"In February 2012, 4th BCT deployed to Kandahar province. Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, formed an overwhelming force in Kandahar. Zhari district in southern Kandahar is where Dadullah was recruiting a high number of jihadists.... Performing with an almost perfect strategic plan, 4th BCT drove Dadullah and his men out of Kandahar to the Northeastern province of Kunar, where Dadullah was killed by airstrikes."

But countless sources state that Mullah Dadullah had been killed in Helmand 2007. Here are just a few citations:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/12/saturday/index.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghan-taliban/taliban-commander-dadullah-killed-in-afghan-clash-idUSISL29013220070513 https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/05/mullah_dadullah_tali.php https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/meet-the-cruellest-taliban-mullah-dadullah-1842327-2021-08-18

While U.S. military intelligence has a history of killing Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders over and over again, that doesn't appear to be the case here. The ONLY source that says that Dadullah was killed in this 2012 action by the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Airborne is this Wikipedia entry.

There was/is a group called the Mullah Dadullah Front that assassinated a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in the spring of 2012 and perhaps the contributor mistakenly contracted the eponymous organization's name. Nonetheless, I'm still not finding anything about the 4th BCT inflicting "massive casualties among the Taliban" or its "almost perfect strategic plan."

Perhaps this entire paragraph should just be cut until more credible and verifiable information is provided. Also, it should be mentioned that in November 2012, the 4th Brigade Combat Team became the first official Security Force Assistance Brigade, the specialized units that now wear brown berets along with personnel in the Security Force Assistance Command.

Feedback?

I confess I haven't read the whole article - I just dropped in to check something; but it struck me that a lot of the language in this section is not encyclopaedic. The language is loaded and heroic, not NPOV. And there aren't nearly enough citations. MrDemeanour (talk) 18:18, 8 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"From 1969 into the 1970s, the 82nd deployed paratroopers to South Korea and Vietnam on more than 180DBT (Days Bad Time) for exercises in potential future battlegrounds."

The phrase "bad time" is a very obscure technical term. The average reader cannot be expected to know what it means, and there is neither an explanation nor a clarifying context in this text. This needs to be fixed.

Now, I looked it up and based on two different collections of military acronyms, "bad time" seems to refer to the number of days a soldier spends AWOL (away without leave) or locked up as punishment. This meaning, however, does not fit the sentence: "From 1969 into the 1970s, the 82nd deployed paratroopers to South Korea and Vietnam on more than 180 days spent AWOL or incarcerated for exercises in potential future battlegrounds." This is nonsensical and badly needs a rewrite by someone who can understand what this was supposed to mean. Arrowgrab (talk) 09:57, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]