Maj. Glenn Burkey, Operations Officer of the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division reads a vignette describing the battalion’s participation in D-Day during the inaugural “Vandervoort Mile” on January 24. Paratroopers of the battalion conducted the teambuilding event, a mile ruckmarch on Fort Bragg, to honor the memory and legacy of Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort, commander of the battalion during the WWII invasion of Normandy.

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