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The 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized)—nicknamed the "Red Diamond", [1] or the "Red Devils" —was an infantry division of the United States Army that served in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War, and with NATO and the U.S. Army III Corps. It was deactivated on 24 November 1992 and reflagged as the 2nd Armored Division. [2]
The 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 5th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division and its attached units distinguished themselves by extraordinary heroism in combat operations against numerically superior enemy forces in the Republic of Vietnam from 18 August to 20 September 1968.
'193rd Infantry Brigade, Task Forces Bayonet. 1st Battalion (Airborne), 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment (United States) 5th Battalion, 87th Infantry; 4th Battalion, 6th Infantry. Detach from 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) C Company, 3rd Battalion, 73rd Armor Regiment (Airborne), Detach from 82nd ABN Div
At the beginning of 1969 XXIV Corps comprised the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) in Thừa Thiên Province and the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) responsible for the coastal lowlands of Quảng Trị Province while the 3rd Marine Division remained responsible for the highlands of western Quảng Trị Province.
The 61st Infantry was relieved from the 5th Division on 15 August 1927 and assigned to the 8th Division, and reassigned to the 5th Division on 1 October 1933. The regiment conducted a mobilization test from 13–26 October 1935 at Lexington.
He is a former commander of the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and Fort Polk, Louisiana. Steele graduated from the University of Georgia in 1950 with a BBA degree, cum laude, and was commissioned as a distinguished military graduate from the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in the U.S. Army.
On 21 August, the 1st Marine Regiment handed over responsibility for the Napoleon/Saline area of operations to the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized), which also assumed control of the Kentucky operational area, while the 1st AMTRAC Battalion remained responsible for the defense of the Cửa Việt Base, strongpoint C-4 and Ocean View.
As part of the fall-out from the aborted Panamanian elections, the Army sent a package of augmentation forces to Panama (Operation NIMROD DANCER)- which included a mechanized battalion from the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized), based at Fort Polk, Louisiana; this battalion was attached to the Brigade, forming Task Force Bayonet. Later in the ...