Topic: 1st Battalion 327th Infantry Regiment

Fort Campbell’s 1st Brigade Combat Team Bulldogs assist ANSF to secure Wazir Valley

April 18, 2013 |

Written by U.S. Army Sgt. Jon Heinrich
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division PAO

Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, recently completed a five day mission, titled OQUAAB XI, with their Afghan National Security Forces partners March 27th–31st, in the Wazir Valley of the Khogyani District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

OQUAAB, which is Pashtu for Eagle, was a combined operation consisting of ANSF forces from the Afghan National Army, Afghan Uniformed Police, Afghan Border Police, Afghan Local Police and Coalition Forces.

U.S. Army Soldiers with 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct to a patrol of a local bazaar, March 30, 2013, in Khogyani District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The patrol was part of a five day mission in conjunction with the Afghan National Security Forces. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Heinrich, RC-East PAO)

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Fort Campbell Soldier dies in Afghanistan

March 30, 2013 |

Fort Campbell, KY – A Fort Campbell Soldier died as a result of combat-related injuries in Afghanistan.

Sgt. Michael Christopher Cable, 26, of Philpot, KY, was a fire support specialist assigned to Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. Fort Campbell, KY.

He joined the Army in August 2007 and arrived at Fort Campbell in December 2010.

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Fort Campbell’s 1st Brigade Combat Team Bushmasters poll the population

March 16, 2013 |

Written by U.S. Army Sgt. Jon Heinrich
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division PAO

Forward Operating Base Fenty, Afghanistan – U.S. Soldiers recently conducted a dismounted patrol March 1st, through the local village outside Forward Operating Base Finley-Shields, Afghanistan.

The Soldiers, from 1st Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conducted the patrol in order to participate in a Shura meeting with elders from surrounding villages during a Key Leader Engagement.

U.S. Army Soldiers with 1st Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct a dismounted patrol March 1st, 2013, outside Forward Operating Base Finley-Shields, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Heinrich, Task Force 1-101 PAO)

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Fort Campbell 1st Brigade Combat Team Soldiers see premier of the documentary ‘City with a Heart’

February 24, 2013 |

1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs

Forward Operating Base Fenty, Afghanistan – In the age of the internet there is nothing special about video teleconferencing, but some are more meaningful than others.

The City of San Mateo, CA, hosted the premier of the documentary “City with a Heart” and their special guests were more than 45 soldiers who participated in live via video teleconference from Afghanistan and Fort Campbell.

Family and friends from the San Mateo community prepare to watch the premier of “City with a Heart,” a documentary about the adoption of Abu Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, during the Vietnam War. Since that time, the ties between the community and Abu Company have continued to grow. (Courtesy Photo by Leann Thornton)

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101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team meets Torkham Gate security forces that protect Afghanistan’s people

December 28, 2012 |

Written by Sgt. Jon Heinrich
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs

Forward Operating Base Fenty, Afghanistan – Torkham Gate is one of Afghanistan’s busiest gates along the country’s border with Pakistan.

Soldiers from 3rd Platoon, Company D, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, were recently joined on a mission to the gate by the brigade’s command sergeant major.

Soldiers from 3rd Platoon, Company D, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, move into the Afghan Customs Department at Torkham Gate Dec. 20th. The gate lies on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is monitored by the Afghan Customs Police, Afghan Border Police and the National Directorate of Security. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Heinrich, Task Force 1-101 PAO)

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Soldiers learn Pashto, Dari to connect with Foreign Partners

December 28, 2011 |

Written by Sgt. Richard Daniels Jr.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs

Fort Campbell, KY - Students graduating from the Eagle Language Training Center took center stage during a skit demonstrating their newfound skill to translate Dari and Pashto here at Wilson Theater, December 15th.

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division graduated the nearly four-month long course and rank the top class since the course began. This included two 1st Brigade soldiers receiving honors for their outstanding accomplishment during the duration of the course.

The course provides Dari and Pashto language training for general purposes in a deployed environment and supports up to 70 to 75 students. The goal is to produce within students a high knowledge and low intermediate proficiency. The course also takes the students out of the class room environment and submerses them into the foreign culture. «Read the rest of this article»

Bastogne Engineers have a Blast

December 17, 2011 |

Written by Sgt. Richard Daniels Jr.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs

Fort Campbell, KY – Remnants of door and wire fell to the ground as soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division held demolitions training here at the ranges December 8th-9th.

Soldiers from the 1st Special Troops Battalion and 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment trained up on various techniques on preparing explosives and breaching as time draws near for their upcoming deployment.

Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, detonate a bangelore torpedo to destroy concertina wire during a training scenario here at the range Dec. 9th. (Photo by Sgt. Richard Daniels Jr.)

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1st Brigade drives drunk during Safety Stand-down Day

September 9, 2011 |

Written by Spc. Richard Daniels Jr.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs

Fort Campbell, KY – Thursday marked 101st Airborne Division’s Safety Stand-down Day where soldiers sat through classes on the important steps to stay safe just before their Labor Day weekend.

However, the 1st Brigade Combat Team celebrated this day with a unique experience. Aside from teaching soldiers about importance of suicide prevention training, fire arm safety, privately owned vehicle safety awareness and motor cycle safety, they heavily stressed the issue of drunk driving.

When we first heard about safety day and the key topic was going to be vehicle safety, we thought about ways we could improve upon that, said Capt. Joyce Louden, a provost martial with Headquarters and Headquarters Company.

Police Lt. Raymond Lepper, a provost martial with the Directorate of Emergency Services, walks with Spc. Ian Murphy, a rifleman with Company B, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, as he gets a feel for the Simulated Impaired Driving Experience course here, Sept. 1. The SIDNE provided unique training to soldiers during Safety Stand-down Day to simulated driving under the influence while the driver was still sober. (Photo by Spc. Richard Daniels Jr.)

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1st Lt. James A. Gardner Medal of Honor Donation Ceremony

August 12, 2009 |

FORT CAMPBELL – The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) will host a Medal of Honor Donation Ceremony on Friday at 10:30 a.m., as the family of 1st Lt. James A. Gardner will donate his medal into the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) atrium in the division’s headquarters. The purpose of the ceremony is to honor Gardner and preserve the history of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).

Gardner was one of 246 recipients of the Medal of Honor for actions during the Vietnam War. 1st Lt. Gardner’s hometown was Dyersburg, Tenn., and he was assigned to the Scout Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment.

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself, “conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States.” «Read the rest of this article»

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