82nd Airborne Division Association

09/01/2026

Now that everyone has made it home, unpacked their bags, and recovered from the 80th National Airborne Convention in San Antonio, Texas, it’s time to look back at captured moments.

🥃 Airborne Dinners
✈️ Historic C-47 That’s All, Brother flight alongside WWII Paratrooper Gene Metcalfe
🪂 LGOPs Workout
🩺 A visit to honor the Brooke Army Medical Center U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center

Five days of Airborne history, old friends, and one formation carrying the legacy forward.

See someone you know? Tag them below.

Airborne, All the Way.

08/27/2026

Airborne family ‼️🪂

A rifle raffle with a purpose behind it ⬇️

The National Ranger Association is raffling a BRC Beal Sniper Rifle in support of the Davis Family.

🎟️ $10 = 1 entry
🎟️ Every $50 spent = 1 extra entry
⏳ Raffle closes Sept. 1

Take your shot and help us support a Ranger family.

https://app.betterunite.com/nationalrangerassociation-brc2026augustraffle

All the Way!

Many of you have seen the story of Rhonda Davis, a selfless mother, wife, and pillar of her community who is courageously battling Triple Negative Breast Cancer.

08/17/2026

🇺🇸National Airborne Day deserves more than a post. It deserves a standard, so we partnered with CrossFit to build one.

This past Saturday we did just that with LGOPs.

Little Groups of Paratroopers (LGOPs)— is a workout that honors those who stood in the door from 1940 to today.

Every number means something:
1940. 48. 250. 509. 101. 11. 82.

History baked into the suffering.

Huge thanks to King William District CrossFit for hosting.

Head to OVR & OUT for the official LGOPs tee 🤙

Carry the Legacy.
Airborne. All the Way.

How fast could you complete LGOPs? Tell us in the comments.

08/16/2026

Sicily. Salerno. Normandy. Holland. The Bulge. The Dominican Republic. Vietnam. Grenada. Panama. Desert Storm. Afghanistan. Iraq. Haiti. Kabul.

For more than 80 years, when the call came, the 82nd moved.

Today, nearly 4,000 All Americans are forward once again, carrying the same patch and standing ready to answer the same call as the Paratroopers who came before them.

To every Paratrooper who stood in the door, National Airborne Day is yours.

🇺🇸America’s Guard of Honor. Airborne, All the Way.

When was your first jump?

08/16/2026

On August 16, 1940, the first official U.S. Army parachute jump proved that American troops could enter the fight from the sky.

Today, we recognize that legacy on National Airborne Day.

Sicily. Salerno. Normandy. Holland. The Bulge. The Dominican Republic. Vietnam. Grenada. Panama. Desert Storm. Afghanistan. Iraq. Haiti. Kabul.

For more than 80 years, when the call came, the 82nd moved.

Today, nearly 4,000 All Americans are forward once again, carrying the same patch and standing ready to answer the same call as the Paratroopers who came before them.

To every Paratrooper who stood in the door, carried the weight and upheld the standard, past and present, this day is yours.

🇺🇸 America’s Guard of Honor.
Airborne, All the Way.

When was your first jump? Tell us in the comments 🤙

08/14/2026

LAST CHANCE 50/50 RAFFLE‼️

The winner takes 50% of everything raised — so if we hit $1,000, you take home $500.

🇺🇸 🪂Every ticket helps support Active Duty Paratroopers and Association-sponsored events like All American Week.

🎟️ $5 each | 5 for $20
📍 You DON’T need to be present to win.

🔗Click the link to get in before the drawing tomorrow.

The 82nd Airborne Division Association is for anyone who ever served in the 82nd Airborne Division, and anyone who is Airborne qualified and/or currently serving on active duty on jump status; or, has ever served in any of the uniformed services on either jump or glider status and was honorably disc...

08/13/2026

September 17, 1944.

Gene Metcalfe climbed aboard a C-47 bound for Groesbeek Heights outside Nijmegen.

When he jumped, German 88s and machine guns were already waiting.

Later, Gene went out on patrol. He was the only man who didn’t make it back.

The Army listed him killed in action.

But Gene wasn’t dead.

When he came to, he was a prisoner of war.

82 years later, Gene climbed aboard a C-47 again—this time surrounded by 82nd Airborne veterans and today’s Paratroopers, listening as he told them what happened when his generation wore the patch.

This how we at the 80th National Airborne Convention.

If you had five minutes sitting across from Gene, what would you ask him? 🇺🇸🪂

08/11/2026

🪂Eighty conventions later, the wings still mean something.

This week, we rally in San Antonio for the 80th National Airborne Convention—to shake hands, trade stories, and remember the Paratroopers who didn’t make it back.

🇺🇸For 250 years, Americans have stepped forward when the country called. USAA’s National Military Monument makes sure their service isn’t reduced to a footnote.

If you’re near Washington, D.C., go see it. Find your people. Honor their names.

Lincoln Memorial Plaza. Open through August 23.

Different branches. Same fire.

Carry the Legacy.

What name do you honor?

08/05/2026

The schedule is locked.

Swipe through, save it to your phone, and figure out where you’re supposed to be before somebody sends a search party.

🇺🇸80th National Airborne Convention
August 12–15 | San Antonio, Texas 📍 River Walk

Show up. Find your people. Carry the Legacy.

Airborne, All the Way.

Still time to register:
https://www.82ndairborneassociation.org/tablet/convention.html

07/29/2026

One more chance to get on the manifest. Registration is still open—but not for long.

Don’t be the one watching everyone else’s convention recap from the couch.

Register now. Airborne, All the Way.

https://82ndairborneassociation.org/phone/convention.html