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Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. joined the DC National Guard in 1899, around the time of the Spanish-American War, for a short period of time after his regiment was disbanded. In the picture above, Davis is somewhere in France, in August, 1944, observing a Signal Corps crew positioning poles.
It was reconstituted 17 June 1924 in the DC National Guard, and concurrently consolidated with Battery D, 60th Artillery, 5th Company, Coastal Defenses of the Potomac, and Batteries B and C, 110th Field Artillery to form the 260th Coast Artillery. It was organized from 17 June 1924 to 1 April 1939, during which time its headquarters was ...
National Guard participants in World War I included: future President Harry S. Truman, who commanded Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, a unit of the 35th Infantry Division; [135] and William J. Donovan, who received the Medal of Honor as commander of the 42nd Division's 1st Battalion, 165th Infantry Regiment (the federalized designation of New ...
DC Streetcar begins operating. March–April: 2016 Nuclear Security Summit. National Museum of African American History and Culture opens to the public. District of Columbia statehood referendum, 2016; 2017 January 20: Inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump; January 21: National Women's March on Washington scheduled.
The violence and insurgence at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. yesterday, which left four people dead, was largely left uncontrolled for many hours before the National Guard was finally ...
The D.C. Armory is an armory and a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in the eastern United States, located in Washington, D.C., east of the U.S. Capitol building. Managed by the Washington Convention and Sports Authority, the Armory was constructed [3] and opened in 1941, as the headquarters, [4] armory, and training facility [3] for the District of Columbia National Guard.
The Pentagon is developing plans to restructure the National Guard in Washington, D.C., in a move to address problems highlighted by the chaotic response to the Jan. 6 riot and safety breaches ...
Nearly 8,000 National Guard members from 40 states have come to the nation's capital for security ahead of the inauguration on Monday. Maj. Gen. John Andonie, the commanding general of the ...