Looks like it's boots on the ground

[SamuelTheThird]

(axios) The headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division has received an order from the Pentagon to deploy to the Middle East along an infantry brigade consisting of thousands of soldiers

[EarlG]

1. MBS has spoken...

https://democraticunderground.com/100221120037

[vapor2]

26. jared and Witkoff at it again?

[Solly Mack]

2. The 28th will be the 5th and final day of Trump's "pause".

Just saying.

[GCG]

3. Well

Looks like 3,000...probably the 1st Brigade Combat Team ("Devil Brigade&quot .

And seeing how this information is known to almost everyone...it means that the Iranians know that they're coming!

[usonian]

4. Well, at least he's consistent.

[nitpicked]

5. WSJ snip (before paywall)

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-us-israel-news-updates-2026/card/pentagon-to-order-3-000-82nd-airborne-soldiers-to-middle-east-3H7VxKvxkaorsOLcRt5g?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqe7KfJ8pJpQBRPgjK_Ww9mnFLPAJ1-bsUViP2eUwPINNN7qfILJ1VeM&gaa_ts=69c2d313&gaa_sig=_A8-5-08o8Vcd383vjWJpGH1_ss5mJPwEyFzREJKi4djFhB781NiWZ1iJ9Ry-7uPABaQE9ti9Sff5kyj7Nhd2w%3D%3D

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Pentagon to Order 3,000 82nd Airborne Soldiers to Middle East
By Lara Seligman ,
Shelby Holliday and
Michael R. Gordon

The Pentagon is planning to deploy a brigade combat team from the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran, according to two U.S. officials.

A written order to deploy the unit, made up of roughly 3,000 soldiers, is expected in the coming hours, the officials said.
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[Rob H.]

6. And how many soldiers will Israel commit? nt

[AloeVera]

7. They're busy at the moment ethnic cleansig Lebanon.

Destroying homes and bridges, driving out a million people AND making sure they don't come back - it's exhausting work! What more do you WANT from them??!!
/S

[leftstreet]

8. +1

No one seems to be talking about the new Gaza

[AloeVera]

10. Smotrich just called for the effective annexation of southern Lebanon.

A new border for Israel up to the Litani river. Those million people are never going back home. It's a Lebanese Nakba as well as Gaza II.

But it's for Israel's "security". What CAN it do??

I really despise the current state of the "only democracy in the Middle East" but despise the gaslighting and hypocrisy necessary to maintain it even more.

[malaise]

9. I spoke with two Lebanese friends

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earlier today. I was checking on their mum. Thankfully she’s visiting family in Syria. Big brother said their mum is accustomed to this madness.
I met her about eight years ago when she visited them and her Jamaican DILs and grandkids. The brothers have been here for 20 plus years. The younger brother said they clearly made the right decision to live in JA and not Lebanon.

[Skittles]

17. mum

I say mum, too

[malaise]

18. Ha

Will never change for me😀

[Skittles]

19. me mum was a Brit

[malaise]

20. Clearly

😀😀

[Skittles]

25. when I was interviewed by FBI for a government IT contract

first thing he said was, "I see you had an English mom." I said, "Well, technically she was an English MUM."

he liked that

[Wednesdays]

11. "...consisting of thousands of soldiers..."

Thousands? They're going to need millions.

[EX500rider]

14. Not if the plan is to seize some islands at the mouth of the gulf

[Passages]

12. What a nightmare. We are the terror state.

Lunatic hawks are happy today.

[Norbert]

13. Prince Slice em and dice em gave the order

And the idiot is complying. Why not? It isn't his kids being deployed .

[Torchlight]

15. A thousand armchair warriors will feel warm and fuzzy upon hearing this

whilst yet others will exploit it to better direct their own narratives.

[Arazi]

16. Agreed. This gibberish about "negotiations" is to buy time for troops to arrive

[Tertullian]

21. How long can they stay?

What if the resilient Islamic Guard does not immediately surrender but wages guerilla urban warfare instead?

Democrats will end this war and make peace with the Mullahs possibly as soon as this November.

[MerryBlooms]

22. Shit.

[maxsolomon]

23. Anything definitive?

Any occupation means this isn't over for months.

[Ilsa]

24. Fort Cavazos (Hood) has been activated for probable

deployment. Here are the Key Units and Commands
III Armored Corps (Phantom Corps): The primary command unit.
1st Cavalry Division: Known for its heavy armor capabilities.
First U.S. Army Division West: Responsible for training units.
Other Major Tenants: 1st Medical Brigade, 3d Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade, 11th Corps Signal Brigade, 13th Armored Corps Sustainment Command, 36th Engineer Brigade, 48th Chemical Brigade, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, and 504th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade.

I'm not sure who is most likely to be deployed, possibly Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 1st Cav?

[Doodley]

27. But Trump has already said the non-war has been won.