Editing Huey Rifle Platoon (section)

==IRL==
[[File:Air rifle platoon 82nd.png|right|300px|thumb|Air Assault troops with the UH-60 Blackhawks that they should be using]]
Functionally, the Airborne serve a role as a quick-reaction force capable of deploying divisional strength forces to any point on the planet within 24 hours of notice. Like most Airborne infantry, US airborne forces are given a harsher level of training to prepare them for the violent reality of airborne deployment: fast, hard and unforgiving. With the purpose of paratroopers being to deploy behind enemy lines or days ahead of heavier army units, they can expect days of tense marching with minor skirmishes at best, or fighting to the last as their position is overrun at worst. With such a dangerous job having higher projected casualties, the Airborne have a strong esprit-de-corps, symbolized by their jump wings. 

The US Airborne have strong ties to the Green Berets, Combat Controllers and Army Rangers, due to their shared airborne heritage and overlapping job scopes. In fact, many who wish to join the Rangers or Special Forces often start their career by volunteering as paratroopers, eventually swapping their maroon berets for green or tan ones. 

Unlike their in-game depiction, the 82nd Airborne are true airborne infantry; meaning that they deploy entirely by fixed-wing aircraft. Rotor-wing aircraft like Hueys and Apaches lack the range to support Airborne troopers from carriers or the capability to evade air-defences, meaning that the 82nd rely on fixed-wing air support. This might be a problem in Team Yankee, as the 82nd would paradrop without heavy weapons for tanks or aircraft: these were dealt with using aircraft or avoided entirely in the best case scenario.

Conversely, the 101st Airborne are proper air-assault infantry. Incapable of swift deployment due to the logistic requirements of helicopters ''(in theory it's possible for the blackhawk to go transatlantic by hopping greenland to iceland to scotland with external tanks and good weather but it's never done, they're always moved to theater by ships or cargo planes)'', the 101st provides a parallel role to the 82nd: shock troops specializing in air-assault operations, meaning that they can literally land on top of enemies lacking air defence, as demonstrated in Afghanistan and Iraq. Effectively, they are the slower but harder hitting brother of the 82nd. Why Battlefront ruined their rather accurate depiction of air assault troops with the wrong unit is anyone's guess.

{{US Forces in Team Yankee}}