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The Infantryman Shoulder Cord is a United States military decoration worn over the right shoulder of all infantry-qualified U.S. Army soldiers. It is a fourragere in light blue, specifically PMS 5415 (dubbed "Infantry Blue" by the U.S. Army), worn under the right shoulder and under the right epaulette of a U.S. Army infantry soldier's Class A dress blue uniform jacket [1] or Class B shirt. [2]
The Vietnam war brought a significant expansion of the program. In 1973, OCS was made branch immaterial and was consolidated into two courses taught at Fort Benning, and another at Fort McClellan, Alabama for female officer candidates; the course length was reduced to 14-weeks. In 1976, the OCS at Fort Benning integrated female candidates and ...
Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) is a United States Army post in the Columbus, Georgia area. Located on Georgia 's border with Alabama , Fort Moore supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve component soldiers, retirees and civilian employees on a daily basis.
Nearly 30 years after reporting to Fort Benning as a brand-new second lieutenant for his officer basic course, Curtis Buzzard returns to where it all began. Now a Major General, Buzzard comes back ...
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Retired Col. David M. Moore, the son of Lt. Gen. Hal and Julia Moore, speaks Thursday morning during a ceremony at Doughboy Stadium where Fort Benning was redesignated as Fort Moore. 05/11/2023
For the new Reorganization Objective Army Division (ROAD) brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia, the adjutant general on 1 August 1962 restored elements of the 99th Reconnaissance Troop, which thirty years earlier had been organized by consolidating infantry brigade headquarters and headquarters companies of the 99th Infantry Division, as Headquarters and Headquarters Companies, 197th and 198th ...
The 87th Infantry was again assigned to the 10th Mountain Division on 18 June 1948, where it was reactivated as a training division [16] at Fort Riley, Kansas. In January 1954, 10th Division became a standard infantry division and was sent to West Germany. It was inactivated on 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, GA. [17]