Army to conduct Operation Devil Storm exercise this month

The 82nd Airborne Division based at Ft. Bragg, NC, will hold a deployment readiness and joint forcible entry exercise from July 13 to 21 called Operation Devil Storm.

The event begins with a 96-hour deployment of an airborne brigade combat team followed by a "mass tactical airborne operation," a series of air assault operations with artillery gun raids and multiple follow-on missions, which will validate the Global Response Force's ability to deploy anywhere in the world within 18 hours, according to an Army statement.

Operation Devil Storm, integrating airborne infantry with helicopters, artillery and engineers, is intended to prepare the division for the possibility of a high intensity conflict with a near-peer threat, the Army said.