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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
500s- parachute infantry regiments or battalions, but the glider regiments kept the numbers of their parent divisions. Thus the 325th (close to 4x82) stayed in the 82nd Airborne Division.
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When gliders got the shaft after World War 2, the 325th was retrained as a parachute unit. Thus the 325th is the only one of the 82nd's four infantry brigades to be designated AIR (Airborne Infantry Regiment) instead of PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment), as the use of the term "Airborne" did not come into widespread use until near the end of World War 2.