Almost everyone in the 82nd will be on jump status. They try to keep the number of NAPs (Non-Airborne Personnel) to an absolute minimum.

Jump pay as of 2011 was $150 a month, and hadn't changed since I went to jump school as a cadet in 1994. Troopers have to make one jump every 90 days to remain current on their jump status, unless they get deployed. As long as they are current when they deploy, they stay on jump status for the duration of the deployment.

The vast majority of the jumps at Bragg are on Sicily DZ, which is the largest on post (and also the closest to the Division barracks areas; convenient, that.)

I can't comment too much on life in Division, since my time there was as an officer on the Division staff. Whole different life from enlisted in a line brigade.

But never marry a stripper, no matter how much she says she loves you!

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The vast majority of the jumps at Bragg are on Sicily DZ...

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From left to right, Sicily, Normandy, Salerno, Holland. Then there's St Mere DZ, and a few others. Mackall is very close, also.

$150 jump, $225 for HALO qualification.

They do more before 9am than most people do all day



If he's Airborne, he'll start calling everyone else "LEG". (Unless the new and improved Army doesn't allow such terms.).

He will do 5 jumps at Benning, (most likely one night jump) and then get his jump wings. The quarterly jump requirement later on, have been waived for some right now, as I understand it, because of the pandemic. But... when this is all done, he should jump often to maintain proficiency.

(Edit because I'm can't spell.)

As the previous poster mentioned, there's the "stripper" reference.

Is he commissioned or enlisted? Standard of living is very different between a new 2Lt and an E-3. When i lived in the area a long time ago, some of the younger single guys wore t shirts underneath their flight suits that said "Fayetteville NC - where fat chicks can be choosey". That's the reference to Hay St and the locals (from all the way back to WW2) and what I understand is a much improved area. I knew plenty of young men that went up to the college environment in Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill to date. I think the 82nd still has at least 50,000 + troops and 10,000 + civilians working in the area.

I will say this:

(The Army guys will need to chime in, as living next door at Pope AFB wasn't a great thing.) I did stay deployed more often than not, but it was very difficult on the families.

82nd was first rate. Loved serving with them The Generals jumped first, from the first aircraft in the formation, , leading from the front. That was my experience with them.

Special Forces - same.

Going down to Georgia and working with Rangers - even more so.

Delta - hmm. Different sort of experience.