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It was officially nicknamed "The Big Red One" (abbreviated "BRO" [2]) after its shoulder patch [6] and is also nicknamed "The Fighting First". [6] The division has also received troop monikers of "The Big Dead One" and "The Bloody First" as puns on the respective officially sanctioned nicknames. [7] It is currently based at Fort Riley, Kansas.
3rd Marine Division redeployment from South Vietnam to the United States: Sep 21 – Oct 28: Operation Putnam Cougar [1] 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division clear and search operation: Bình Định Province: Sep 27 – Oct 7: Operation Hancock Flame [1] 3rd Battalion, 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment clear and search operation: Bình Thuận ...
Operation Big Lodge [1] 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines search and destroy operation: Quảng Nam Province: Jan 15 – 19: Operation Red Ball IV [1] 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division resupply operation: III Corps: Jan 17 – 18: Operation Pioneer I [1] 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment search and destroy operation: Biên Hòa Province: Jan 18 ...
One of the first Joint Personnel Recovery Center operations as part of Operation Black Knight to rescue POW, 1LT James N. Rowe: Chuong Thien Province: 2: Aug 28 – Sep 5: Operation Diamantina [1] [5] 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment reconnaissance in force: north of Nui Dat, Phước Tuy Province: Aug 29 – Sep 9: Operation Sussex Bay ...
North Vietnam: 20,000 est. 835 Mar 11 – 1972: Operation Market Time [5] Combined U.S. Navy and South Vietnamese Navy effort to stop the flow of supplies from North Vietnam into South Vietnam: South China Sea: Mar 31: Operation Quyet Thang 512 [6]: 17–8 ARVN 5th Airborne Battalion, MAG-16, HMM-163 and HMM-162 air assault
After serving as a battle group in Europe in the early 1960s, the battalion rejoined the 1st Infantry Division shortly before receiving orders to deploy as a part of the Army's first divisional-sized unit in Vietnam in 1965. The Blue Spaders served longer in Vietnam with their Big Red One units than any other division.
The 16th Infantry was the featured unit in the motion picture The Big Red One. The 16th is also the regiment Fox Company of the game Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. The 1st Battle Group, 16th Infantry, was the unit filmed in the beach landing scenes in the 1961 movie The Longest Day.
Raid on the Bataan Death Camp (Battle of Bataan, Cabanatuan Raid) Tet Offensive (Tet Offensive) The Big Red One (Operation Torch, Battle of El Guettar, Invasion of Sicily, Operation Overlord) Afghanistan's Deadliest Snipers (Operation Anaconda, Operation Asbury Park, the death of Pat Tillman) Return to Fallujah (Second Battle of Fallujah)