505th Panther Association

The 3rd Brigade Combat Team received new leadership Feb. 17, at the change of command between Col. Carl A. Alex and Col. Timothy P. McGuire at Fort Bragg.
The command was publicly transferred when Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, passed the brigade’s colors to Alex during the ceremony.
After the [...]

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A letter from Panther Association President Ed Herlihy to the troopers of the 3rd Brigade upon their return from the most recent deployment.

by Eve Meinhardt

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On Thursday, more than 260 paratroopers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and the brigade’s commander, Col. Timothy P. McGuire, redeployed to Fort Bragg from their 12-month deployment to Iraq. The flight was one of many over the last few weeks, returning the more than 3,400 deployed Soldiers from the [...]

Just a quick note to let you know that the association website now displays the various supportive measures that are done on behalf and in support of the 3rd Brigade. Feel free to check out the list here.

You’ll be the envy of every PowerPoint ranger with this high speed low drag 505th wallpaper!

SALMAN PAK, Iraq – Iraqi Capt. Abbas Kadhum speaks with Lt. Col. Michael Shinners (left), of Alexandria, Va., and Capt. Dallas Cheatham (right), of Fayetteville N.C., about the history of the Arch of Ctesiphon and the area that surrounds it during a site assessment mission Aug 5 in Salman Pak, Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi military [...]

SHAKKAT, Iraq – Spc. Corey Daniel, of Shelbyville, Ind., takes a knee on a ridge as he pulls security while his Iraqi Army partners search a nearby building during Operation Mufa-Ja’ah, a combined air assault mission, July 31 in the small town of Shakkat, Iraq, located in the Ma’dain region outside of eastern Baghdad. The [...]

67 years ago on 6 July 1942, the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment was born in the “Frying Pan Area” of Fort Benning, Georgia. There were several parachute regiments that began their history before the 505th; each started as a platoon, and then became a company, then finally a battalion. The 505th, however, had a regimental [...]

Full details of Panther Association events during the Annual 82nd Airborne Division National Convention are now available.

82nd Airborne National Convention August 19-22, 2009
Marriott East
7202 East 21st St.
Indianapolis, IN

The Panther Association will join the Golden Brigade and share a hospitality room on main floor- Veterans Room #4.
The Panther Association will also have Veterans Room #3.
There will [...]