"The Earth is 78% water... the rest is just a drop zone!!!" (author unknown)
	DATE	POST	STATE  or NATION	ACTIVITY / DUTY
	20 Oct 1942	Camp Blanding	Florida	Unit Activation
	Feb - Mar 1943	Fort Benning	Georgia	Parachute School
	Apr - Aug 1943	Camp Mackall	North Carolina	Advanced Training
	21 - 28 May 1943	Camp Croft, Cheraw, SC	South Carolina	Maneuvers
	7 Sep 1943 - 23 Oct 1943	Lebanon and Tullahoma	Tennessee	2nd Army Maneuvers
	19 Dec 1943	Camp Shanks	New York	Port of Embarkation
	28 Dec 1943	Port of N.Y. City	New York	Set sail on USAT James Parker
	8 Jan 1944	Belfast	Ireland Disembarkation	Disembark
	Jan - Mar 1944	Cromore Estate	Ireland, Training	Advanced Training
	10 Mar 1944	Port Stewart	Ireland	Train to Belfast
	11 Mar 1944	Belfast	Ireland	Ferry to Glasgow
	13 Mar 1944	Glasgow	Scotland	Train to Nottingham
	Mar - Jun 1944	Nottingham	England	Base Camp, Practice jumps
	Jun - Jul 1944	Normandy	France	Combat
	Jul - Sep 1944	Nottingham	England	Base Camp, Training, R & R
	Sep - Nov 1944	Nijmegen	Holland	Combat
	Nov- Dec 1944	Sissonne	France	Base Camp, R & R
	Dec 44 - Jan 45	Ardennes-Alsace	Belgium	Combat
	Jan 10-21 1945	Chevron	Belgium	Combat
	March - April 1945	Sissonne	France	Strategic Reserve
	April -May 1945	Chartres Airport	VE Day	European Hostilities Ended
	Jun - Dec 1945	Frankfurt	Germany	Eisenhower's Honor Guard
	1 Jan 1946	Sissonne	France	Awaiting Shipment home
	9 Nov 1946	New York Harbor	New York	508th returns to home soil
	24 Nov 1946	Camp Kilmer	New Jersey	508th deactivated
	16 Apr 1951	Fort Bragg	North Carolina	508th Airborne Infantry Regiment (AIR) activated
	Aug 1951	Fort Bragg	North Carolina	508th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (ARCT) formed
	Dec 1951	Fort Rucker	Alabama	Aggressor force in war exercise against 47 ID
	8 Apr 1952	Fort Hood	Texas	Exercise Long Horn
	1952-53	Fort Benning	Georgia	Training, Infantry School support
	15 Feb 1954	Fort Campbell	Kentucky	Attached to 11th Airborne Division
	July 1954	Camp Chickamauga	Beppu, Japan	Operation Gyroscope, replaced 187th ARCT
	1955	Bangkok	Thailand	Operation Firm Link, joint SEATO Exercise
	July 1956	Fort Campbell	Kentucky	Cadre for formation of reactivated 101st
	27 Mar 1957	Fort Campbell	Kentucky	508th ARCT deactivated
	1964			1st Battalion reformed and reactivated.
	20 April 1965	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	Operation Power Pack.
	15 Feb 1968		Republic of Vietnam	Operation Yorktown Victor and others
	25 Oct 1983		Grenada	Operation Urgent Fury
	11 Nov 1983	Fort Bragg	North Carolina.	Returned to bases camp
	Jan 1985		Sinai Desert	Deployed with a multi-national observer force for a six month period
	Jul 1985	Fort Bragg	North Carolina	Battalion inactivated and relieved from assignment to the 82nd Airborne Division
	10 Jul 1987	Fort Bragg	North Carolina	187th Infantry became the 1-508th Infantry
	20 Dec 1989		Republic of Panama	Operation Just Cause
	15 Oct 1994	Fort Kobbe	Panama	Red Devils inactivated
	27 Apr 1996	Vicenza	Italy	Reactivated as the 1-508th Airborne Battalion Combat Team.
	1999	Kosovo	Bosnia	Bosnia Jump and show of force
	12 Jun 2000	Vicenza	Italy	Became a part of the Sky Soldier team as the 173rd Airborne Brigade was reactivated.
	26 Mar 2003	Bashur DZ	Northern Iraq	Operation Iraqi Freedom.
	19 Oct 2004	Camp Blanding	Florida	508th Association (WW-II) Retired
	2005-2006	Paktikia Province	Afghanistan	1st Bn. A Co and C Co, (173rd Airborne Brigade), Joint Task Force Devil
	2005-2006	Kandahar	Afghanistan	1st Bn. B Co, (173rd Airborne Brigade), Joint Task Force Bayonet
	20 Oct 2006	Boston	Massachusetts	Family & Friends of 508th PIR Association incorporated
	26 May 2006	Fort Bragg	North Carolina	1-508 and 2-508 PIR reassigned as a part of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Jan 2007	Pakitika Province	Afghanistan	Operation Enduring Freedom.
	Apr 2008	Fort Bragg	North Carolina	4th BCT returned from Afghanistan