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The United States Army Finance Corps is a combat service support (CSS) branch of the United States Army.The Finance Corps traces its foundation to 16 June 1775, when the Second Continental Congress established the office of Paymaster General of the Army. [1]
The mission of the 3rd Battalion was to attack abreast with the 100th Battalion and four other battalions and relieve the entrapped unit. Though seriously depleted in manpower, the battalion hurled back two determined enemy counterattacks, and after reducing a heavily mined roadblock finally established contact with the besieged battalion.
The Quartermaster Corps is the U.S. Army's oldest logistics branch, established 16 June 1775. On that date, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution providing for "one Quartermaster General of the grand army and a deputy, under him, for the separate army".
The 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery Regiment of the Kentucky Army National Guard was ordered to service in Vietnam in late 1968. The unit supported the regular 101st Airborne Division . The Battalion's C Battery lost nine men killed and 32 wounded when North Vietnamese troops overran Fire Base Tomahawk on June 19, 1969.
The battalion was led by Charity Adams, the first Black woman to be commissioned into the WAC. She received her mission order to deploy to Europe in late 1944, and the 6888th’s 855 members were ...
The 138th Infantry Regiment is a light infantry regiment of the United States Army and the Missouri National Guard. There are currently two Battalions within the 138th Infantry Regiment: The 1st Battalion, 138th Infantry Regiment is a light infantry battalion assigned to the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, subordinate to the 35th Infantry ...
The 35th Engineer Brigade was originally organized as the Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 138th Infantry Regiment at St. Louis, Missouri, on 17 July 1928. On 1 May 1940, the unit was reorganized and redesignated as the Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion, 138th Infantry. It was inducted into federal service on 23 December 1940 at St. Louis.
Stout Army Airfield was established in 1926, serving as the headquarters for the Indiana Guard's Army Air Corps. When America joined World War II , the Indiana Guard was once again federalized. Camp Atterbury was established in 1942, training hundreds of thousands of Soldiers until the war's conclusion.