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Arditi (from the Italian verb ardire, 'to dare', and translates as "The Daring [Ones]") was the name adopted by a Royal Italian Army elite special force of World War I.They and the opposing German Stormtroopers were the first modern shock troops, and they have been called "the most feared corps by opposing armies".
Initially the 1st Bersaglieri Regiment was reformed as a complete unit, but already on 24 June, the day the Austro-Hungarian Army commenced the Second Battle of the Piave River, the regiment's battalions became autonomous again and were assigned to the 1st Assault Division, which also included Arditi battalions. Likewise the LV Battalion was ...
However each army raised and employed these battalions in different ways and only after the disastrous Battle of Caporetto did the Italian High Command take control of the formation and use of the Arditi units. Each army corps was to receive an Assault Battalion organized into a battalion HQ, three Arditi companies, three machine gun sections ...
In September 1943, after the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile the regiment's I Arditi Battalion, which was based in Sardinia and undertook reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, and sabotage missions in allied held Algeria and Tunisia, joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army. In March 1944, the I Arditi Battalion was renamed IX ...
The regiment is part of the Italian Army's infantry corps' Bersaglieri speciality and was last operationally assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Aosta". The regiment was formed in 1883 by the Royal Italian Army with preexisting battalions. During World War I the regiment served on the Italian front. After the war the regiment was disbanded for ...
Arditi; World War II. Regio Esercito : 10th Arditi Regiment (3 battalions, plus 1 combined parachutist battalion) Regia Aeronautica : A.D.R.A. Arditi Distruttori Regia Aeronautica (2 battalions) Blackshirts : Battaglioni M
Bersaglieri halt the Russian advance during the Battle of the Chernaya in Crimea in 1855 Second from right: Bersagliere in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1901. On 1 January 1871 the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment was formed in Palermo with the III Battalion, V Battalion, XII Battalion, and XXIII Battalion, which were transferred from the 3rd Bersaglieri Regiment.
The United States Army Military Intelligence Readiness Command (MIRC, The MIRC, formally USAMIRC [1]) was stood up as the first Army Reserve functional command in 2005. . Headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, MIRC is composed mostly of reserve soldiers in units throughout the United States, and encompasses the bulk of Army Military Intelligence reserve units, consisting of over 40 strategic ...