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173rd Airborne Brigade – "Sky Soldiers"; "The Herd". They received their official nickname (Tien Bing translates to Sky Soldiers) from the Taiwanese locals during exercises when they were parachuting in Taiwan. The 173rd was part of the only major conventional airborne operation (Operation Junction City) during the Vietnam War. The unit's ...
Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), Confederate Army general and later US Army general and politician "The Fighting Quaker" – Smedley Butler , U.S. general "Flagellum Dei" ( Latin for Scourge of God,) – Attila the Hun , Turkic [ 2 ] ruler of the Huns who is renowned for many successful campaigns against Rome [ 3 ]
Pages in category "Nicknames of military personnel" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Glossary of Military Terms & Slang from the Vietnam War; How the term SNAFU originated; Internet Archive: Private SNAFU – The Home Front (1943) – This is one of 26 Private SNAFU cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale of the troops. SNAFU Principle; The SNAFU Special – Official website of the C-47 #43-15073
The term "dogface" to describe an American soldier appeared in print at least as early as 1935. [5] [6] Contemporaneous newspapers accounted for the nickname by explaining that soldiers "wear dog-tags, sleep in pup tents, and are always growling about something" and "the army is a dog's life...and when they want us, they whistle for us."
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.
G.I.s from the 25th Infantry Division in the jungle of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands, during Operation Cartwheel on 13 September 1943. G.I. is an informal term that refers to "a soldier in the United States armed forces, especially the army". [1]
United States Army Air Forces soldiers (1 C, 526 P) Pages in category "United States Army soldiers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,137 total.