XVIII Airborne Corps (United States)
The XVIII Airborne Corps ( German XVIII. US Airborne Corps , nickname : Contingency Corps , about emergency corps ) is a large unit of the US Army and is currently the largest single combat unit at corps level of the US armed forces . It is the only airborne corps in the United States and currently consists of four divisions with around 88,000 men. The headquarters of the XVIII. US Airborne Corps is based in Fort Bragg , North Carolina . An XVIII. Corps previously existed from 1862 to 1864 in the Civil War , but has no connection with the later units.
history
The 18th US Airborne Corps was set up on January 17, 1942 as the 2nd US Armored Corps and renamed the XVIII Corps on October 9, 1943. For Operation Market Garden on August 25, 1944, the Corps was under the 82nd , 101st Airborne Division and the 17th Airborne Division (United States) , and was renamed XVIII Corps (Airborne) . Major General Matthew B. Ridgway was given high command and led his soldiers a month later during the airborne operation in the Netherlands . Together with the English Airborne Corps, it was under the First Allied Airborne Army , under the command of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton . At the end of June 1945 the units returned home, where the corps was initially decommissioned. It was not until the tensions that arose during the Korean War that it was reactivated. The corps was reorganized in May 1951 and moved to the new location in Fort Bragg.
Units of the corps fought in the Vietnam War and participated in the following operations:
- Operation Power Pack in the Dominican Republic on April 30, 1965
- Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada on October 25, 1983
- Operation Golden Pheasant in Honduras , 1988
- Operation Nimrod Dancer in Panama , 1989
- Operation Hawkeye in the Virgin Islands in September 1989
- Operation Just Cause in Panama on December 20, 1989
- Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia on August 9, 1990
- Operation Desert Storm in Iraq in February 1991
- Operation GTMO in Cuba in November 1991
- Operation Hurricane Andrew in Florida on August 27, 1992
- Operation Restore Hope in Somalia on December 13, 1992
- Operation Uphold Democracy (Maintain Democracy) in Haiti in September 1994
- Operation Vigilant Warrior in Kuwait in October 1994
- Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq on March 20, 2003
On February 14, 2008, the XVIII. US Airborne Corps the tasks of the Multi-National Corps Iraq from III. US Corps , which has held this task in Baghdad since December 2006 .
organization
organization chart
Subordinate associations and units
- XVIII. Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg ( North Carolina ):
Combat units
- 3rd Infantry Division ( Rock Of The Marne ) in Fort Stewart ( Georgia )
- 10. US Mountain Division ( Climb to Glory ) in Fort Drum ( New York )
- 82nd Airborne Division ( All Americans / America's Guard of Honor ) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- 101st Airborne Division ( Screaming Eagles ) in Fort Campbell ( Kentucky )
- 18th Fires Brigade (Fort Bragg, NC)
- 20th Engineer Brigade (Fort Bragg, NC)
Units that are also in the area of the XVIII. Airborne Corps are stationed:
- 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (Fort Bragg, NC)
- 16th Military Police Brigade (Fort Bragg, NC)
- 44th Medical Command (Fort Bragg, NC)
- 1st Theater Support Command, (Fort Bragg, NC)
- 3rd Sustainment Brigade, (Fort Stewart, GA)
- 10th Sustainment Brigade, (Fort Drum, NY)
- 82nd Sustainment Brigade, (Fort Bragg, NC)
- 101st Sustainment Brigade, (Fort Campbell, KY)
List of the commanding generals
- Major General Matthew Ridgway
- Major General John W. Leonard
- Maj. Gen. Thomas F. Hickey
- Major General Joseph P. Cleland
- Major General Ridgeley Gaither
- Major General Paul D. Adams
- Lieutenant General Robert Frederick Sink
- Maj. Gen. Dwight E. Beach
- Lieutenant General TJH Trapnell
- Lieutenant General Hamilton H. Howze
- Lieutenant General William C. Westmoreland
- Major General Harry H. Critz
- Lieutenant General John W. Bowen
- Brigadier General John A. Seitz
- Brigadier General Roderick Wetherill
- Major General Joe S. Lawrie
- Lieutenant General Bruce Palmer, Jr.
- Lieutenant General John L. Throckmorton
- Lieutenant General Robert H. York
- Lieutenant General John J. Tolson III.
- Lieutenant General John H. Hay
- Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz
- Lieutenant General Henry E. Emerson
- Lieutenant General Volney F. Warner
- Lieutenant General Thomas H. Tackaberry
- Lieutenant General Jack V. Mackmull
- Lieutenant General James J. Lindsay
- Lieutenant General John W. Foss
- Lieutenant General Carl W. Stiner
- Lieutenant General Gary E. Luck
- Major General William A. Roosma
- Lieutenant General Gary E. Luck
- Lieutenant General Henry H. Shelton
- Lieutenant General John M. Keane
- Lieutenant General William F. Kernan
- Lieutenant General Dan K. McNeill
- Lieutenant General Lloyd J. Austin III.
- Lieutenant General Frank G. Helmick
- Lieutenant General Daniel B. Allyn
- Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson
- Lieutenant General Stephen J. Townsend (since May 2015)
References
Web links
- Homepage of the 18th US Airborne Corps ( Memento from January 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- History of the 18th US Airborne Corps at globalsecurity.org (English)
- Subordinate units at army.mil ( Memento from December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ III Corps transfers authority to XVIII Airborne at MNF-Iraq.com on February 11, 2008; (English).
