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"Lone Star" – Texas is the "Lone Star State". 37th Infantry Division "Buckeye"; This is today's 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. 38th Infantry Division "Cyclone" – official. Named after a tornado hit the camp where the division was training prior to deployment during World War I. "The Avengers of Bataan" This is today's 38th Sustainment ...
The Unit Identification Code (UIC) is a six character alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies each United States Department of Defense entity. The UIC is often used on various paperwork to assign a soldier to a specific company in which they fall under. The first character is the Service Designator: [1] A: US Department of Agriculture
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (Regular Army/National Guard unit of 1918–19) 10th Mountain Division
The brigade combat team (BCT) is the basic deployable unit of maneuver in the U.S. Army. A brigade combat team consists of one combat arms branch maneuver brigade, and its assigned support and fire units. A brigade is normally commanded by a colonel although in some cases a brigadier general (O-7) may assume command. [1]
A brigade, on the other hand, is a flexible organization; it has no permanent elements. A brigade may have several different kinds of units assigned to it, such as: three light infantry battalions or two mechanized infantry and an armor battalion or one light, one mechanized and one armor battalion; plus support units. The usual number of ...
The standard US Army usage is to use letters, and have the letters before the word 'Company' or 'Troop'; sometimes the letters are after 'Battery'. This is done when the company, troop, or battery is part of a larger administrative unit. Sometimes just letters are used, sometimes they are spelled out phonetically. Examples:
The 11th Corps Signal Brigade ("Desert Thunderbirds") of the United States Army is an element of Army Forces Command. [2] It is based at Fort Cavazos, Texas. The unit mascot is the Thunderbird, a hawk-like bird perched upon a globe shooting thunderbolts out of its eyes. Soldiers in this unit call themselves "The Thunderbirds."
Type designations in units' names should be translated to the English-language equivalent. Note, however, that the general convention (above) calls for giving the native-language form of a unit's name in the introduction to an article about that unit, so in that case the designation may appear both ways: The German 3rd Mountain Division (3.