Screaming Eagles Through the New Millennium: 75 Years of the 101st - Rotor & Wing International

I would think it would depend on the breakdown and organization of the Brigade. Most divisions have restructured over the years. I don't like how they changed the structure of the Brigade Combat Teams and renamed some of the units a few years back, then restructured them again obviously and could have renamed certain units, but did not. For example I used to be in the 2nd Brigade "Strike" which was 1, 2, 3rd Bns of 502nd Infantry. Then they made them Brigade Combat Teams which consisted of basically 5 Bns consisting of 2 Infantry Battalions, a Cav. Regiment, a special troops bn. and a support bn. So they had 1st and 2nd Bns of 502nd Infantry, they changed 3rd/502nd to 1/75th Cav, and then the 2 support bns. Now they changed it to 6 bns, consisting of 1/502, 2/502, 1/26 Infantry Bns, 1/75 Cav, 39th Enginer bn, and 526th Brigade Support bn. I wish they would have re-designated the 3rd Infantry bn. back to the 3/502 but they didn't . They did that in all the brigades. So you have 2 each of 187th and 327th Infantry battalions in their respective brigades, and then a thirdInfantry bn that is some other numeric designation. It's kind of like they bastardized the units. 187 is the Rakassans, but they have 1/187 and 3/187 (Rakkasans), then they mixed in 2/506th (Currahees), so how is that Rakkasan Brigade?

They added 2/506th to 3rd BDE when they restructured because it was such a historic unit and they didn't want to deactivate it's battalions.

I can second how ridiculous the division's air capability is. A couple years ago, we couldn't even do a battalion air assault with less than - if I properly recall - three lifts.

In my opinion, each brigade needs its own organic aviation battalion.