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Today, the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry, is the only ground combat unit of the Army Reserve. [38] The battalion headquarters is at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, with subordinate units based in Hilo, American Samoa, [39] Saipan, Guam, and Washington. The only military presence in American Samoa consists of the battalion's B company. [40] [41]
The 100th Infantry Battalion (Japanese: 第100歩兵大隊, Dai Hyaku Hohei Daitai) is the only infantry unit in the United States Army Reserve.In World War II, the then-primarily Nisei battalion was composed largely of former members of the Hawaii Army National Guard.
The 100th Training Division (Leader Development) (formerly the 100th Infantry Division) is a division of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It currently serves as a major training command of the United States Army Reserve. It has been known as the "Century Division" owing to its "100th" designation.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
On 23 April 1908 Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. [3] After World War I, under the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army, a National Guard and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army Reserve. [4]
Munemori was a private first class in the United States Army, in Company A, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. [5] For his actions, when the 442nd was part of the 92d Infantry Division , he was the only Japanese American to be awarded the Medal of Honor during or immediately after World War II.
Francis Shigeo Takemoto (Japanese: 竹本 繁雄, [1] 28 November 1912 – 26 May 2002) was a Hawaii Army National Guard and United States Army Reserve brigadier general.A veteran of the famed 100th Infantry Battalion in World War II, he became the first Asian American promoted to general officer rank in 1964.
From December 2003 through February 2004, the 458th Engineer Battalion (Combat) [18] of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, mobilized through Fort McCoy. One of the soldiers mobilized was an intra-Reserve transfer or "fill" from Boise, Idaho, who later used his experiences there to form a major chapter in the online webcomic BOHICA Blues. The entirety of ...