Before the post-Vietnam expansion of “Special Forces”, paratroopers were the elite infantry of the US Army, and the 82nd Airborne focus on parachute assault to capture the Cold War airbases that would be used as beachheads for the main force landing in C-130s; and the 101st Airborne on fast-rope attack-from-the-roof “air assault” (to deal with ‘80s Beirut urban combat) is getting kinda dated