82nd Airborne Return Timeline

You're find a timeline for the return of the 82nd in this 25 JAN 04 Fayetteville Online article.

As soldiers return from Iraq through May, the division will be putting back together its program to have brigades of soldiers ready within 18 hours to get onto airplanes and parachute into combat.

The article also addresses the adjustments soldiers must make when returning from Iraq. "...it may be easier to take the soldiers out of Iraq than it is to take Iraq out of the soldiers."

All returnees get blood tests