History: The 3rd Infantry Division has one of the most

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About 3rd Infantry Division
www.stewart.army.mil
History  The 3rd Infantry Division has one of
the most successful combat records of any U.S.
Army division. It has paid a high price for this
distinction, suffering nearly 35,000 wartime
casualties. Fifty-one members of the 3rd Infantry
Division have been awarded the Medal of Honor
while serving our nation. Activated in November
1917 during World War I at Camp Greene, North
Carolina, it went into combat for the first time
eight months later in France. At midnight on July
14, 1918, the Division earned lasting
distinction. Engaged in the Aisne-Marne Offensive
as a member of the American Expeditionary Force
to Europe, the Division was protecting Paris with
a position on the banks of the Marne River. While
surrounding units retreated, the 3rd Infantry
Division remained rock solid and earned its
reputation as the "Rock of the Marne." Although
the stand was highly successful, a steep price
was paid.   World War II brought even greater
glory. The 3rd Infantry Division fought in North
Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Germany and
Austria for 531 consecutive days of combat. 3rd
Infantry Division soldiers earned 36 Medals of
Honor during World War II. At Anzio the Division
fought off three German divisions. While there it
suffered more than 900 casualties, the most in
one day of any division in World War II. The most
highly decorated soldier of the war, Lt. Audie
Murphy served with the 15th Infantry Regiment.
During the Korean War, the Division, was known
as the "Fire Brigade" for its rapid response to
crisis. It received ten Battle Stars. The
Division fought gallantly throughout the war,
insuring the freedom South Korea maintains today.
Eleven more Medal of Honor recipients were added
to the division's list of heroes during the
Korean War.   From April 1958 to April 1996, the
Marne Division was stationed in Germany serving
as a key link in securing the defense of Western
Europe, contributing greatly to the ultimate
triumph over Communism in the Cold War in
1989.   In November 1990, soldiers of the 3rd
Infantry Division were once again called into
action. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, more
than 6,000 Marne men and women deployed with the
1st Armored Division on Operation Desert Storm as
part of the Allied Coalition. Later nearly 1,000
soldiers deployed to southeastern Turkey and
northern Iraq to provide comfort to Kurdish
refugees. Another group of nearly 1,000 were part
of Task Force Victory rebuilding Kuwait.   In
1996 the Division was restationed at Fort
Stewart, Fort Benning, and Hunter Army Airfield
in Georgia.   The Division has since repeatedly
demonstrated its deployability in Kuwait, Egypt,
Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and
other Middle Eastern countries to support the War
on Terrorism.
             
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1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment
www.soc.mil/75thrr/75th_home.htm
             

• Overview The Army maintains the Regiment at a
  high level of readiness. Each battalion can
  deploy anywhere in the world with 18 hours
  notice. Because of the importance the Army places
  on the 75th Ranger Regiment, it must possess a
  number of capabilities. These capabilities
  include infiltrating and ex-filtrating by land,
  sea and air conducting direct action operations
  conducting raids recovery of personnel and
  special equipment conducting conventional or
  special light-infantry operations.
• To maintain readiness, Rangers train constantly
  in arctic, jungle, desert, and mountain
  operations, as well as amphibious instruction.
  The training philosophy dictates the units high
  state of readiness. The philosophy includes
  performance-oriented training emphasizing tough
  standards, realism, and live-fire exercises,
  while concentrating on the basics and safety.
  Training at night, during adverse weather, or on
  difficult terrain multiplies the benefits of
  training events.
• Organization Each Ranger battalion is authorized
  660 personnel assigned to three rifle companies
  and a headquarters company.
• Ranger battalions are light infantry and have
  only a few vehicles and crew-served weapons
  systems. Standard weapon systems of the unit are
  listed below
• 84mm Ranger Antitank Weapons System (RAWS)
• 60mm Mortars M240B Machine Guns
• 81mm Mortars Mark 19 RP MM Grenade Launcher
• 120mm Mortars Stinger

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About Third U.S. Army
www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/arcent
.htm
Overview The Third Army/ARCENT headquarters
consists of both Active and Reserve Component
soldiers and Department of Defense civilians.
This staff of over 500 personnel manages
day-to-day operations and planning for CENTCOM
Land Forces. On 11 November 2001 Lt. Gen. Paul T.
Mikolashek moved from his headquarters at Fort
McPherson, GA, to Kuwait, taking most of his
staff of 700 with him. Third Army/ARCENT
maintains four forward deployed subordinate
commands that perform vital operational missions
C/JTF-Kuwait, ARCENT-Kuwait, ARCENT-Saudi Arabia,
and ARCENT-Qatar. These forward headquarters
enhance engagement with host nations, contingency
planning, and transition-to-war capabilities by
providing initial command, control, facilities,
and services for reception, staging, onward
movement, and integration (RSOI) of early
arriving forces. During wartime, Reserve
Component (RC) war-trace units, in addition to
Active Components (AC) units, are essential
members of the Third Army team, a force of some
300,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
Seamless integration of Reservists has improved
Reserve Component capabilities and added depth to
the force. As the Army Service Component
Headquarters of the United States Central
Command, Third Army (Army Central Command -
ARCENT) remains the only fully deployable
numbered army. Deployable at a moment's notice
anywhere a crisis arises, providing command and
control for all U.S. Army forces entering a
theater of operations and establishing the
linkages to the joint war fighting commander.
Third Army is capable of performing as the Joint
Forces Land Component Command, or Command of a
Coalition / Joint Task Force coordinating the
combined efforts of all land forces within a
theater of operations.
             
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About US Army Reserve Command (USARC)
http//www.armyreserve.army.mil/arweb/organization
/commandstructure/usarc/
             

• Mission USARCs mission is to provide trained
  and ready units and individuals to mobilize and
  deploy in support of the national military
  strategy. USARC is responsible for all of the
  operational tasks involved in training,
  equipping, managing, supporting, mobilizing and
  retaining Soldiers under its command. USARC is
  comprised of over 20 offices, each with an
  individual mission and function that contributes
  to the accomplishment of USARCs overall mission.
  
• Operational groups such as personnel,
  logistics, operations, training and resource
  management are responsible for the daily work
  involved in managing, training and equipping the
  Army Reserves Soldiers and units across the
  continental United States.
• Special staff offices provide technical support
  and guidelines to USARC and Army Reserve units
  across the country. These offices include public
  affairs, safety and enterprise services.
• The Executive staff includes the leaders of the
  USARC and their personal staff. The leaders are
  the Commanding General, the Deputy Commanding
  General, the Chief of Staff and the Command
  Sergeant Major. The personal staff includes the
  Staff Judge Advocate (legal), Inspector General,
  Historian and Chaplain.

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About First US Army
www.first.army.mil
Mission  First U.S. Army executes
pre-mobilization Training and Readiness Oversight
and post mobilization operations in accordance
with the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) Model
in order to provide trained and ready
conventional Reserve Component Forces to Regional
Combatant Commanders for the full spectrum of
operations.  On order, provides certified Defense
Coordinating Officers/Defense Coordinating
Elements. On order, establishes Task Force
Consequence Management (TF-CM). History First
United States Army was formed in France on August
10, 1918 with General John J. Pershing
commanding. As America's FIRST numbered Army,
First Army engaged in two major operations - the
reduction of the St. Mihiel salient, east of
Verdun, and the great Meuse-Argonne offensive,
west of Verdun. Listed among First Army's
distinguished soldiers were Lt. Gen. Hunter
Liggett, Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Col.
George C. Marshall, Maj. Eddie Rickenbacker,
Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell and Sgt. Alvin York.
After World War I ended and after a short period
of occupation in Europe, First Army was
deactivated in 1919. Reactivated at Fort Jay,
NY, in 1933, First Army's new mission of training
and readiness matched today's mission. On
D-Day, June 6, 1944, with Gen. Omar N. Bradley
commanding, First Army troops landed on Omaha and
Utah beaches in Normandy. After World War II,
First U.S. Army headquarters was on Governor's
Island, NY. On January 1, 1966, First and Second
Armies merged and First Army headquarters moved
to Fort Meade, MD. In 1973, First Army
transitioned from an Active Army oriented
organization to one dedicated to improving the
readiness of Reserve Components. Once again, in
1983, another reorganization took place. Second
U.S. Army was reactivated at Fort Gillem, GA, and
assumed responsibility for Reserve Component
matters in seven states and two territories
formerly belonging to First Army. In 1991, Fourth
U.S. Army was deactivated and its seven
midwestern states became part of First Army. In
1995, First Army left Fort Meade, MD and was
reorganized at Fort Gillem, GA. Fort Gillem was
formerly known as the Atlanta Army Depot. For the
past 50 years, Fort Gillem has worked side by
side with the surrounding Clayton County
community. The relationship began in 1941 when
the Atlanta General Depot moved its Candler
Warehouse to what is now Fort Gillem. On June
28, 1973, responsibility for the installation was
transferred from Army Materiel Command to U.S.
Army Forces Command, renamed Fort Gillem and made
a satellite installation of Fort McPherson. The
name was selected in memory of Lieutenant General
Alvan C. Gillem, Jr., who began his career as a
private at Fort McPherson in 1910 and retired 40
years later as commanding general of Third U.S.
Army, now headquartered at Fort McPherson.
             
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About the Georgia Army National Guard
www.dod.state.ga.us

• Mission To provide an organized militia (the
  military force of citizen soldiers required by
  the Georgia Constitution) Trained, disciplined
  and motivated to serve, protect, and defend the
  State of Georgia and the United States .  
• Command Vision An organization of excellence
  dedicated to defend and serve the Nation, State,
  and Community.
• Command Values Integrity First, Service Before
  Self, and Excellence In All We Do
• Goals of Commander, Georgia Army National Guard
  (CDR, GaARNG)
•  
• Mobilize the GaARNG.
• Support Land Dominance.
• Shape Security Environment.
• Support Civil Authorities.
• Trained, Relevant Ready Force for Today the
  Future.
• Man the GaARNG.
• Train the GaARNG.
• Organize the GaARNG.
• Equip Sustain the GaARNG.
• Provide Info and Infrastructure.
• Leverage Technologies into Key Processes.

             
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About XVIII Airborne Corps
www.bragg.army.mil/18abn
Mission To maintain the XVIII Airborne Corps as
a strategic crisis response force, manned and
trained to deploy rapidly by air, sea and land
anywhere in the world, prepared to fight upon
arrival and win. History The XVIII Airborne
Corps, with Headquarters at Fort Bragg, was
originally activated as the II Armored Corps at
Camp Polk, Louisiana, January 17, 1942. It was
redesignated XVIII Corps October 9, 1943, at the
Presidio of Monterey, California. The Corps
celebrates it's birthday August 25, 1944, when
the blue airborne tab was added at Orbourne, St.
George, England. On this same day, the XVIII
Airborne Corps assumed command of the 82d and
101st Airborne Divisions. Within a month, Major
General Matthew B. Ridgway, the first Corps
Commander, sent his men into action in Operation
Market Garden, the allied invasion of the
Netherlands during World War II. The Corps
returned to the United States in late June 1945
and was deactivated October 15, 1945, at Camp
Campbell, Kentucky. The XVIII Airborne Corps was
reactivated at Fort Bragg on May 21,
1951. Organization Today the XVIII Airborne
Corps - the Army's largest warfighting
organization - exercises control over 88,000
thousand soldiers assigned to the 3d Infantry
Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia
10th Mountain (Light), Fort Drum, New York, 82d
Airborne Division, Fort Bragg 101st Airborne
Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky
XVIII Airborne Corps Artillery 2d Armored
Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, Louisiana 108th Air
Defense Artillery, Fort Bliss, Texas 18th
Aviation Brigade 229th Aviation Regiment 20th
Engineer Brigade 525th Military Intelligence
Brigade 16th Military Police Brigade 35th
Signal Brigade 1st Corps Support Command 44th
Medical Brigade 18th Finance Group 18th
Personnel Group and Dragon Brigade, all located
at Fort Bragg.
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About 82nd Airborne Division
www.bragg.army.mil/82dv/
Mission Within 18 hours of notification, the
82nd Airborne Division strategically deploys,
conducts forcible entry parachute assault and
secures key objectives for follow-on military
operations in support of U.S. national interests.
1st Brigade Combat Team                         
1-504 Parachute Infantry Regiment                 
         2-504 Parachute Infantry
Regiment                          3-73 Cavalry
Regiment  (Part of 3-505)                         
3-319 Airborne Field Artillery
Regiment                          307th Brigade
Support Battalion                          1BCT
Special Troops Battalion
           2nd Brigade Combat Team               
     1-325 Airborne Infantry Regiment             
       2-325 Airborne Infantry Regiment           
         1-73 Cavalry Regiment                   
2-319 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment           
         407th Brigade Support Battalion          
          2BCT Special Troops Battalion
            3rd Brigade Combat
Team                       1-505 Parachute
Infantry Regiment                       2-505
Parachute Infantry Regiment                      
5-73 Cavalry Regiment (Part of 3-505)             
          1-319 Airborne Field Artillery
Regiment                       82nd Brigade
Support Battalion                       3BCT
Special Troops Battalion
                      4th Brigade Combat Team
(Recently Reactivated)                            
    1-508 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Former
3-504)                                2-508
Parachute Infantry Regiment (Former
3-325)                                4-73
Cavalry Regiment                               
2-321 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment           
                     782 Brigade Support
Battalion                                4BCT
Special Troops Battalion
              82nd Combat Aviation
Brigade               1-82 Attack
Reconnaissance Battalion AH-64D              
2-82 Assault UH-60L               3-82
General Support Aviation Battalion              
122 Aviation Support Battalion              
1-17Attack Reconnaissance Squadron
82nd Sustainment Brigade Sustainment Brigade
Special Troops Battalion
Division Special Troops Battalion   
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About US Army Special Operations Command
www.soc.mil

• Mission To organize, train, educate, man,
  equip, fund, administer, mobilize, deploy and
  sustain Army special operations forces to
  successfully conduct worldwide special
  operations, across the range of military
  operations, in support of regional combatant
  commanders, American ambassadors and other
  agencies as directed.
• Subordinate Units
• HQ, US Army Special Forces Command
• US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center
  and School
• 75th Ranger Regiment
• 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment
• Special Operations Support Command (Airborne)
• 4th Psychological Operations Group
• 95th Civil Affairs Brigade