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Anniversaries
April 1, 2001
Engagements
Somalian Civil War Bosnian Civil War 1997 Albanian civil unrest Kosovo War Afghanistan War
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Anaconda
Operation Harekate Yolo I
Operation Harekate Yolo II
Operation Oqab
Operation Gala-e Gorg
Congolese Civil War
Commanders
Current commander
Major General Dirk Faust
Notable commanders
Lieutenant General Hans-Otto Budde
Lieutenant General Jörg Vollmer
Military unit
The Rapid Forces Division (German: Division Schnelle Kräfte), formerly Special Operations Division (Division Spezielle Operationen), is an airborne division of the German Army that was activated in 2001 and received its current designation in 2014.
Its headquarters staff is based at Stadtallendorf. It was created as 1st Airborne Division (1. Luftlandedivision) in 1956 and reflagged twice in 1994 and 2001 as Airmobile Forces Command/4th Division (Kommando Luftbewegliche Kräfte/4. Division), Special Operations Division and eventually Rapid Forces Division. The division leads three combat brigades and special forces troops, all of which are fully air-mobile.
In June 2014, the Dutch 11th Air Mobile Brigade was fully integrated into the division as part of the binational military cooperation between Germany and the Netherlands and in 2017 the Romanian 81st Mechanized Brigade followed suit.[1]
^"Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic deepen defence ties". NATO. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
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