Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager became the first woman to lead any U.S. Army infantry when Maj. Gen. Mark Malanka retired from the California National Guard's 40th Infantry Division on June 29, 2019. The division was led by men since its inception in 1917. Yeager was promoted in 2016 to brig...
1939 US Army (and its Cavalry) ranks 39th in the world - Army strength: 189,839 people (0.15% of U.S. population The Army still used Cavalry and had horses to pull artillery, and ranked 39th in the world for military strength. That low ranking didn't bode well for the ongoing war ...
St. Louis, Missouri, was among the first six American hospital units selected for mobilization. The organization consisting of 28 Officers, 65 Nurses, and 185 Enlisted Men under the command of Major J. D. Fife (US Army Medical Corps) left for New York...
The military is having trouble recruiting. The brass says its just because kids are afraid of getting hurt but we all know that’s a lie. Its about the woke stuff. The active strength of the Army is under 500,000. In a nation of 330 million and 4.3 million men coming of military age...
If Clark blames himself at all for the abrupt ending of his career after 34 years in the Army, he has never let on. More than one friend has quoted him, when trying to comprehend his forced retirement, as saying plaintively, “But we won the war…” ...
The USS“General A. E. Anderson”docked at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation,Virginia (US Army third largest TC Port of Embarkation in terms of passengers and second in terms of cargo during WWII –ed)at 1000 hours, February 13, 1944, with troops debarking the next day at 0500 in the ...
depth study of the circumstances of each suicide. The most recent year for which that analysis is available is 2011, and among the findings was that those who took their own lives tended to be white men under the age of 25, in the junior enlisted ranks, with less than a college ...
Brochure about ratings in the US Navy, WWII Full Integration Work continued in the Navy after the war. On February 27, 1946, without fanfare, the Bureau of Naval Personnel issued Circular Letter 48-46 which prohibited all segregation in assignments, ratings, ranks, ships, facilities, and housi...
Brett McKay: There’s probably not a lot of 50 year old Army Rangers or Navy SEALs, but you’d probably see that as a Green Beret. Dick Couch: Not so much. I think that there may be some who stay on who have had an enlisted career and then an officer career and have been able...
- Army strength: 269,023 people- Navy strength: 160,997 people- Marine Corps strength: 28,345 people- Air Force strength: Not yet formed- Total strength: 458,365 people- Percent of population enlisted: 0.35% American involvement in WWII was limited: The military contributed materials and finan...