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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#000033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Footlight MT Light" ><B>Acadiana Airborne Chapter - 82nd Airborne Association</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>  </B></FONT><B> |   </B><B>  </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Newsletters"><U>Newsletters</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Events Projects"><U>Events & Projects</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Membership"><U>Membership</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photos"><U>Photos</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge"><U>Memorial Bridge</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Memorial for Medal of Honor Recipient"><U>MOH Memorial</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiWPZJoxk1A" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiWPZJoxk"><U>82nd Airborne Song</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqjnLngyDm0" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqjnLngyD"><U>Blood Upon the Risers</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Mk_KaXok4" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Mk_KaXo"><U>101st Airborne Song</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF6VtcjX-o" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF6VtcjX"><U>Jump School</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agr4iStbBM&feature=related" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agr4iStb"><U>Airborne Medley</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu2gKJdxlYw&feature=related" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu2gKJdxl"><U>Jump</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="00e7e440.jpg" border=0 width="126" height="68" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="1" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="01376450.jpg" border=0 width="118" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#000066" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I>About Us</I><I> <A NAME="top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> <I> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="657" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#000033 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#000033 HEIGHT= 1455 WIDTH="645"><div> <B>Welcome to the Acadiana Chapter - Lafayette Louisiana</B></div> <bR> <div> Welcome to our website... The Acadiana Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association was Chartered in 1980.  We are the one Louisiana Chapter with members throughout Louisiana, but we also have members in Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. </div> <bR> <div> The Acadiana Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association is open to any Paratrooper or Glider qualified veteran.  Any member of the 82nd Airborne Division (assigned to the Division on competent orders) is qualified.  All members are qualified to hold office in the Chapter and the Association. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chapter Chairman - John R. Vidrine</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Vice-Chairman - Roosevelt Solomon</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sec/Treasuer - Lorne Quebodeaux</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sgt at Arms - Almo Mercier</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> In addition to the 82nd, our membership includes paratroopers who served with the 11th, and 101st Abn Divisions, Special Forces, the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 551st (Separate) Airborne Battalion.  </div> <bR> <div> Our meetings are held at the American Red Cross Building in Scott, LA.  Call (337) 288-2730 for directions.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>ACADIANA CHAPTER </B></div> <div> <B>82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION ASSOCIATION</B></div> <div> <B>CHARTERED BY THE US. CONGRESS</B></div> <div> 2424 Pierre Matte Road; Branch, LA 70516-3631</div> <div> PHONE (337)  684-6175 or cell: (337) 288-2730</div> <bR> <div> Dear Fellow Trooper: </div> <bR> <div> Our Chapter is interested in your becoming a member.  We would like you to have some information about our Acadiana Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association.  </div> <bR> <div> We have been a chartered Chapter for over 30 years and are the only Airborne Association in the state of  Louisiana that accepts all Airborne Qualified veterans.  We welcome veterans of bordering states (MS, TX and AK) where we are the closest Chapter.  </div> <bR> <div> Our membership includes veterans of WW II, the Korean War, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm), Afghanistan, and Iraq as well as those still on active duty.</div> <bR> <div> The Acadiana Chapter has raised funds for and built two impressive monuments.  The first is the monument to Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient, Captain Stephen Logan Bennett, USAF.  He was from Lafayette, LA and was commissioned into the USAF through the Air Force ROTC at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana, Lafayette).  This granite monument with bronze likeness and MOH citation stand at the Cajundome in Lafayette by the flagpole near the entrance.  The other is a monument recognizing the "Louisiana Memorial Airborne Bridge."  It is located at mile marker 121 on Interstate 10 in Louisiana.  This is about 15 miles east of Lafayette, Louisiana.  The Louisiana State Legislature at the request of the Acadiana Chapter passed Legislative Act 793 on July 10 1989 naming the 18.5 mile elevated bridge on I-10 over the Atchafalaya Swamp as the "Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge."   The Acadiana Chapter members bought and paid for the monument and the benches surrounding it.  We invite all Airborne veterans to stop if you are traveling on I-10 to see the monument.  The dedication of the monument occurred on October 20, 1990.  </div> <bR> <div> In 2007 the Chapter raised and sent over $4,000 to the 82nd Division Chaplain's office for their "Helping Hand" fund to assist lower enlisted soldiers and their families.  We also donated over $1500 towards the new 82nd Memorial Monument to the fallen troopers of Iraq and Afghanistan.  We have also sent donations to the VA Hospital in Alexandria, LA for their indigent patient fund.  </div> <bR> <div> Our meetings normally occur on the first Saturday of the month at the American Red Cross Building in Lafayette, LA (actually Scott).  We have a ladies auxiliary for the wives, daughters and other female family members.  They meet concurrently with the men.  We normally have  a covered dish lunch at each meeting, or occasionally go to a local restaurant to eat lunch.</div> <bR> <div> Our Chapter Newsletters will give you the dates, times and other details of the meetings prior to the meetings.  </div> <bR> <div> Please join us in "Airborne" Camaraderie.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="About Us"><U>Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>