82d Airborne Division Artillery.

The 82d Div Arty, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, maintains its ability to deploy with no notice worldwide and synchronize lethal and non-lethal fires in support of the 82d Airborne Division.

The Div Arty Headquarters demonstrated its warfighting skills during two major exercises: the 82d Division Warfighter in January and Roving Sands/Purple Dragon in June. During the Warfighter, the Div Arty served as the force FA headquarters that included one active FA brigade and one National Guard FA brigade. In Roving Sands/Purple Dragon 2000, a Joint Forces Command exercise, the Div Arty integrated and synchronized fire support-with the 10th Marines. Throughout the year, the 319th AFAR fired over 30,000 rounds. The Div Arty conducted three battalion and five battery EXEVALs, many battalion and battery FTXs and five CALFEXs.

1-319 AFAR, the Loyalty Battalion, completed a highly successful JRTC rotation, redeployed C Battery from Kosovo in October, demonstrated its danger-close firing ability during a CALFEX for the Chief of Staff of the Army and executed many DZ fire missions and air assault raids. 1-319 AFAR stands ready for no-notice deployment.

Paratroopers of 2-31 9AFAR, Falcon's Fury, continued their tradition of excellence. The unit completed a successful JRTC rotation in October and then entered the annual regimental competition, winning best FIST, FDC and howitzer section. 2-319 conducted a series of company-level CALFEXs, integrating Army attackaviation, CAS, mortars and GS artillery firing in close proximity to maneuver forces at night and in extreme weather.

3-319 AFAR, the Gun Devils, began the year with C Battery deploying to Kosovo as a part of Operation Noble Anvil, supporting TF Falcon, 3-504th PIR. During C/3-319 AFAR's six-month deployment, the unit conducted live fire in support of the 3-504th cordon and search missions and a 100-mile air assault into Macedonia. The battalion honed its METL throughout the year by conducting several CALFEXs, DZ missions and air assaults.

The 319th AFAR is fully prepared to execute a no-notice worldwide deployment in support of the All American Division. Airborne--All the Way!