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The 25th Infantry Regiment arrived at Fort Missoula in May 1888. The regiment was one of four created after the Civil War that were made up of black soldiers with white officers. In 1896, Lieutenant James Moss organized the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps to test the military potential of bicycles. [6]
The most extensive experimentation on bicycle units was carried out by 1st Lieutenant James A. Moss, of the 25th United States Infantry (Colored) (an African American infantry regiment with European American officers). Using a variety of cycle models, Moss and his troops, accompanied by an assistant surgeon, carried out extensive bicycle ...
The 25th Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army activated in 1866 and deactivated in 1957. One of the " Buffalo Soldier " units, the racially segregated regiment saw action during the American Indian Wars , Spanish–American War , Philippine–American War and World War II .
In 1869 the Regular Army was kept at ten regiments of cavalry but cut to 25 regiments of Infantry, reducing the black complement to two regiments (the 24th and 25th (Colored) Infantry). The 38th and 41st were reorganized as the 25th, with headquarters in Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, Louisiana, in November 1869.
The 25th Infantry Division consists of two infantry brigade combat teams, a division artillery, a combat aviation brigade, and a division sustainment brigade. Soldiers from 3rd Brigade engage a simulated enemy during an exercise near Schofield Barracks, Hawaii A CH-47 from 3-25th GSAB landing on USS Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean. 25th Infantry ...
25th Infantry Regiment (Argentina) 25th Independent Mixed Regiment, a Japanese unit; 25th Infantry Regiment (United States) 25th Regiment of Foot, a British Army unit; 25th Punjabis, a British Indian Army unit; 25th Continental Regiment, a unit during the American Revolutionary War
Following the withdrawal of the 1st Marine Division, the division continued operations on Guadalcanal as part of the U.S. XIV Corps with the 25th Infantry Division (who later earned their 'Tropic Lightning' nickname here) and the 2nd Marine Division (Arrived earlier as reinforcements to the 1st MarDiv) until all of the Japanese resistance had ...
The 25th Massachusetts was organized at Camp Lincoln in Worcester, Massachusetts, beginning September 1, 1861 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on October 31, 1861, under the command of Colonel Edwin M. Upton.