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The Army National Guard (ARNG) is an organized militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States Army.It is simultaneously part of two different organizations: the Militia of the United States (consisting of the ARNG of each state, most territories, and the District of Columbia), as well as the federal ARNG, as part of the National Guard as a whole (which includes the Air ...
The state National Guard is organized into units stationed in each of the 50 states, three territories, and the District of Columbia, and operates under their respective state or territorial governor, except in the instance of Washington, D.C., where the National Guard operates under the President of the United States or their designee.
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
Pages in category "Divisions of the United States Army National Guard" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The president was to determine both the number and type of National Guard units that each state would maintain. Both the Regular Army and the National Guard were to be organized, insofar as practicable, into permanent brigades and divisions. 5th Division: 1917* (26th Division) 6th Division: 1917* (27th Division) 7th Division: 1917* (28th Division)
I. 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division; 56th Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (United States) 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States)
713th Cavalry Regiment (South Carolina Army National Guard) Constituted 1973, redesignated 202nd Cavalry 1991. Troop B active 1974–1991. [35] [19] 748th Cavalry Regiment – Redesignated 1963 in the Georgia Army National Guard. Regimental units broken up and redesignated 1968. [36] [35]
Three of the first five U.S. Army divisions in combat were National Guard divisions, and the division with the highest number of Medal of Honor recipients was the National Guard's 30th Division. [2] Six of the eight U.S. divisions rated "superior" or "excellent" by the German General Staff during the war were National Guard divisions. [132]