The National Capital Area Chapter of the 101st
Airborne Division Association is chartered in our nation's capital and
has members throughout Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and Delaware.
The
Association was created for Screaming Eagles by Screaming Eagles. All
those who have worn the division insignia are welcome to join.
The National
Capital Area Chapter has been in existence for over two decades. We
are working very hard to expand membership. We very much want to see
new members get involved as well as seeing old members become active
again.
Remember, we have a Rendezvous with Destiny.
"The 101st Airborne Division, activated at Camp Claiborne, has no
history, but it has a rendezvous with destiny. Like the early American pioneers
whose invincible courage was the foundation stone of this nation, we have
broken with the past and its traditions in order to establish our claim to the
future.
Due to the nature of our armament, and the tactics in which we shall
perfect ourselves, we shall be called upon to carry out operations of
far-reaching military importance and we shall habitually go into action when
the need is immediate and extreme.
Let me call your attention to the fact that
our badge is the great American eagle. This is a fitting emblem for a division
that will crush its enemies by falling upon them like a thunderbolt from the
skies.
The history we shall make, the record of high achievement we hope to
write in the annals of the American Army and the American people, depends
wholly and completely on the men of this division. Each individual, each
officer and each enlisted man, must therefore regard himself as a necessary
part of a complex and powerful instrument for the overcoming of the enemies of
the nation.
Each, in his job, must realize that he is not only a means, but an
indispensable means for obtaining the goal of victory. It is, therefore, not
too much to say that the future itself, in whose molding we expect to have our
share, is in the hands of the Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division."
"The 101st Airborne Division, activated at Camp Claiborne, has no
history, but it has a rendezvous with destiny. Like the early American pioneers
whose invincible courage was the foundation stone of this nation, we have
broken with the past and its traditions in order to establish our claim to the
future.