82nd Airborne

July 22, 2025

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Gold Star widow reflects on husband’s sacrifice in Afghanistan

September 8, 2021 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — Britt Harris still vividly remembers the first moment she saw her now-deceased husband, Spc. Chris Harris, a U.S. Army paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne. “Chris and I met in Southern Pines, where we […]

Military works to improve conditions for quarantined troops

March 20, 2020 Lolita Baldor, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It wasn’t the welcome home that U.S. soldiers expected when they returned from war zones in the Middle East in the past week. When their planes landed at Fort Bliss, Texas, they […]