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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 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]
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
The 36th Brigade was reconstituted as a divisional formation (36th Brigade, 50th Armored Division) from 1988–92. In 1992 it became the 36th Brigade of the 49th Armored Division based at Houston, TX. It seems likely to have been active between 1992 and May 2004 when the 49th Armored Division became the 36th Infantry Division.
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.
Latest rules according to AR 220-5 Designation, Classification, and Change in Status of Units 2-3d(2)(e) 22 August 2019: "U.S. Army unit designations use the ordinal number abbreviations “2d” and “3d,” not “2nd” or “3rd” (for example, 2d Infantry Division, 703d Support Battalion)." JamesMG107 02:45, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
A shoulder sleeve insignia (SSI) is an embroidered emblem worn on the sleeves of some United States Army uniforms to identify the primary headquarters to which a soldier is assigned.
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."