AP: 82nd Airborne Cancels Annual Celebration

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82nd Airborne Cancels Annual Celebration
By Associated Press

March 6, 2007, 11:45 AM EST

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Too many paratroopers are deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan
to hold the annual All American week celebration for the 82nd Airborne Division
this year, a division spokesman said.

In normal years when the paratroopers are at Fort Bragg, most of the division of
about 17,000 soldiers parade past the commanding general and scores of veterans
in the annual celebration before Memorial Day.

This year, about 6,000 paratroopers, including the commanding general and his
staff, as well as the 4th Brigade Combat Team, are in Afghanistan. Soldiers in
the 2nd and 3rd Brigade Combat Teams are in Iraq.

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