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80th Division ("Blue Ridge Division") 5 August 1917 23 July 1917 Brig. Gen. Herman Hall Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite Brig. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson Brig. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis Jr. Somme Offensive Meuse–Argonne: 81st Division ("Wildcat Division") 5 August 1917 2 November 1918
The 80th Training Command (The Army School System – TASS) is a formation of the United States Army Reserve. The unit was first organized in August 1917 and activated the following September during World War I as the 80th Division. During World War II, the Division was redesignated on 1 August 1942, as the 80th Infantry Division.
The Blue Ridge Rifles, established in 1950, is a military precision drill team within the ROTC program at the University of North Georgia.It is not directly affiliated with the Blue Ridge Rifles that existed as a military unit of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, but drew its name in memory of that unit that stood up from the local area.
The distinctive unit insignia of the regiment is an "Old Gray Bonnet" proper, and is one of the few DUIs in the U.S. Army designed to be manufactured and worn in pairs (left and right). The insignia is a blue shield with a gray saltire cross and a prickly pear and fleur-de-lis, and a boar's Head with an oak branch in its mouth on top.
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Under the command of Colonel John Campbell McArthur, a Regular Army officer, the 326th Infantry Regiment was officially activated as one of the four regiments of the 82nd Infantry Division on August 29, 1917, nearly five months after the American entry into World War I, at Camp Gordon, near Atlanta, Georgia.
A few weeks after the American entry into World War I, the First Expeditionary Division, later designated as the 1st Infantry Division, was constituted on 24 May 1917, in the Regular Army, and was organized on 8 June 1917, at Fort Jay, on Governors Island in New York harbor under the command of Brigadier General William L. Sibert, from Army ...
The 26th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.Its nickname is "Blue Spaders", taken from German soldiers in World War I who saw the spade-like device on the regiment's distinctive unit insignia and called the soldiers “Blauerspadern”.