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The 28th Infantry Division ("Keystone") [1] is a unit of the United States Army National Guard, and is the oldest division-sized unit in the Army. [2] Some of the units of the division can trace their lineage to Benjamin Franklin's battalion, The Pennsylvania Associators (1747–1777). [3]
The 56th SBCT is one of nine Stryker Brigade Combat Teams in the United States Army and for many years, until the conversion of 81st SBCT, it was the only reserve component Stryker unit in the Army. It is one of five brigades of the 28th Infantry Division, and provides light infantry land assets for both federal and state active duty missions.
The 28th Operations Group is the flying component of the United States Air Force 28th Bomb Wing, stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. The group controls two Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomb squadrons, and provides combat-ready aircrews to project global power anytime in support of the Combatant Commander's objectives.
28th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht) 28th Infantry Division Aosta, Kingdom of Italy; 28th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 28th Infantry Division (Poland) 28th Division (Spain) 28th Division (United Kingdom) 28th Infantry Division (United States) 28th Infantry Division of Kordestan, Iran; Aviation divisions: 28th Air Division, United States Air Force
The brigade was reflagged the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team on 24 October 2004 at Fort Indiantown Gap's Muir Army Airfield. [23] Elements of the 28th Infantry Division deployed twice quickly in succession to Bosnia and Kosovo as part of SFOR and KFOR from 2002. In 2002–03, the Division deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina (SFOR) and in 2003–04 ...
3rd Cavalry Stryker Brigade Combat Team; 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States) 40th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States) 44th Infantry Brigade Combat Team; 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States)
The 108th Field Artillery was formed on December 11, 1840, at a time when many militia units were forming across the country. It was established as an infantry company in the 1st Volunteer Infantry Regiment by CPT Thomas Tustin and was called The National Guards after the Marquis de Lafayette's unit Les Guardes de Nationale, one of several in the state to use this name.
The 28th continued its air refueling mission as part of the 28th Operations Group at Ellsworth until Strategic Air Command was inactivated in June 1992. The squadron was reassigned to the 43d Operations Group of Air Mobility Command at Malmstrom Air Force Base , Montana until 1994.