Editing 82nd Airborne Division (section)

== Post–Cold War == 

===Operation Uphold Democracy: Haiti===

On 16 September 1994, the 82nd Airborne Division joined [[Operation Uphold Democracy]]. The 82nd was scheduled to make combat parachute jumps into Pegasus Drop Zone and PAPIAP Drop Zone ([[Port au Prince Airport|Port-au-Prince Airport]]), in order to help oust [[Raoul Cédras]] and to restore [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] to the presidency. At the same time, former U.S. president [[Jimmy Carter]] and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [[Colin Powell]] were negotiating with Cédras to restore Aristide to power, the 82nd's first wave was in the air, with paratroopers waiting at Green Ramp to air-land in Haïti once the airfields there had been seized. When the Haitian military verified from sources outside [[Pope Air Force Base]] that the 82nd was on the way, Cédras stepped down, averting the invasion.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}

Former vice president [[Al Gore]] would later travel to [[Fort Bragg|Fort Bragg]] to personally thank the paratroopers of the 82nd for their actions, noting in a speech on 19 September 1994, that the 82nd's reputation was enough to change Cédras' mind:

{{Blockquote|But it did get a little close there for a while. As you may know, there were 61 planes in the air headed toward Haïti at the time they finally agreed. And at one point General Biamby came in and told General Cédras that he had just gotten word on his telephone that the airplanes had taken off from Pope Air Force Base, with soldiers from Fort Bragg, and that both disconcerted them and caused them to be suspicious of the intent of the negotiations, but it also created a situation where immediately after that, the key points they had been refusing to agree to were agreed to, a date certain, other matters that I won't go into in detail here.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}}}

===Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage===

On 12 December 1994, the 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 505th Infantry, with the 2nd Platoon of Company C, 307th Engineer Battalion, deployed as part of [[Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage]]. The battalion deployed from Fort Bragg "to restore order" against what American officials termed "[[1994 Cuban rafter crisis|Cuban refugees"]] who had attacked and injured a number of Air Force personnel and one marine while protesting their detainment at Empire Range along the [[Panama Canal]]. The battalion participated in the safeguarding of the Cuban refugees, a camp cordon and reorganization, and the active patrolling in and around the refugee camps in and around the Panamanian jungle along the Panama canal for two months. General Engineering support in the area of camp establishment/improvement operations was provided by the Sappers of the habitually associated Task Force Panther Engineer platoon, 2/C-307th. (Task Force Panther was commanded by LTC [[Lloyd Austin|Lloyd J. Austin III]], who would later be the first African American General to commander of [[United States Central Command|U.S. Central Command]] and [[United States Secretary of Defense|U.S. Secretary of Defense]].) This support included the planning of camp power requirements, pouring of 78 concrete pads, three-foot bridges, a set of "mock doors" for airborne pre-jump training, and a system of decks for the muddy camp. During the deployment, the paratroopers experienced a 92-degree Christmas Day and returned to Fort Bragg on 14 February 1995.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}

===Operation Joint Endeavor: Bosnia===

Battalions of the 82nd prepared for a possible parachute jump to support elements of the [[1st Armored Division (United States)|1st Armored Division]] which had been ordered to Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of [[Operation Joint Endeavor]]. Only after engineers of the 1st Armored Division bridged the [[Sava|Sava River]] on 31 December 1995 without hostilities did the 82nd begin to draw down against plans for a possible airborne operation there. The 82nd's 49th [[Public affairs (military)|Public Affairs Detachment]] was deployed in support of the 1st Armored Division and air-landed in Tuzla with the 1AD TAC CP and began PA operations to include establishing the first communications in print and radio and covering the crossing of the Sava River by the main forces.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}

===Centrazbat '97===

In September 1997 the 82nd traveled to [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Uzbekistan]] for CENTRAZBAT '97. [[Paratroopers]] from [[Ft. Bragg]], NC flew 8000 miles on U.S. Air Force C-17s and jumped into an airfield in [[Shymkent, Kazakhstan|Shimkent, Kazakhstan]]. Forty soldiers from the three republics joined 500 paratroopers on the exercise-opening jump. Marine Gen. [[John J. Sheehan|John Sheehan]], then-commander in chief of the [[United States Atlantic Command|Atlantic Command]], was first out of the aircraft. The 82nd joined units from [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Turkey]], and [[Russia]] in the two-week-long NATO training mission. Members of the international press and local reporters from [[WRAL-TV]] and the [[Fayetteville Observer]] were also embedded with the 82nd Airborne.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gillert |first1=Douglas |title=After Jumping, Battalion Learns to Crawl |url=http://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=41525 |website=archive.defense.gov |publisher=US Department of Defense |access-date=29 December 2015 |archive-date=2 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102205528/http://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=41525 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Operation Allied Force: Kosovo===

In March 1999 the TF 2–505th INF deployed to [[Albania]] and forward-deployed along the Albania/[[Kosovo]] border in support of [[Operation Allied Force]], [[NATO]]'s bombing campaign against [[Serbia]]n forces in the former [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] Republic. In September 1999, TF 3–504th INF deployed in support of [[Operation Joint Guardian]], replacing TF 2–505th INF. TF 3–504th INF was replaced in March 2000 by elements of the [[101st Airborne Division (United States)|101st Airborne Division]]. On 1{{nbsp}}October 1999, the 1–508th ABCT (SETAF) made a combat jump in "Operation Rapid Guardian": 500-foot altitude jump near [[Pristina]].{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}