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51 unusual facts about united States Army


12th Observation Group

It was last active as the 12th Observation Group assigned to the Eighth Corps Area of the United States Army at Brooks Field, Texas.

1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Two nights later, the American League All-Stars traveled to Cleveland Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, to play a special benefit game against a team of players from the U.S. Army and Navy.

1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment

The 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment (1–68 Armor) is a battalion of the 68th Armor Regiment, United States Army.

255n

255N is a US Army Military Occupational Specialty code for a Network Management Technician - a Warrant Officer Military Occupational Specialty in the Signal Corps.

Abdullah Abu Azzam al-Iraqi

There was a reward of $50,000 offered for information leading to his death or capture; he was killed by the United States Army in a shootout in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Allison Engine Company

In the late 1920s the United States Army funded the development of a series of high-power engines, as part of its hyper engine series, which it intended to produce on Continental Motors' production lines.

Allyn Capron

Allyn Capron is the name of two United States Army captains of the Spanish American War.

Beretta

In the eighties, Beretta enjoyed a renewal of popularity in North America after its Beretta 92 pistol was selected as the service handgun for the United States Army under the designation of "M9 pistol".

Bill Boedeker

A graduate of North Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Boedeker entered the U.S. Army after high school but was sent to train at DePaul University in Chicago.

Bray-sur-Somme

On 1 September 1944, Bray-sur-Somme was liberated by units of the United States Army.

Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

Forrest Gump agreed and promised to be his partner after the end of their service in the United States Army.

Buffalo coat

Buffalo coats were issued to police and military officers, particularly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the United States Army, prior to their replacement by parkas.

Castel Focognano

During World War II Rassina was home for many American soldiers who were hiding or preparing the offensive on the German army.

Cavalry draw

The name and technique come from the gunleather used by the cavalry of both the United States Army and the Confederate States Army, during the Civil War.

Cecil Pugh

The Four Chaplains — United States Army chaplains who gave their lives in similar circumstances in 1943

Charles B. Warren

During World War I, He served in the U.S. Army on the staff of the Judge Advocate General, ending his service with a rank of Lieutenant Colonel and a Distinguished Service Medal.

Civic action program

Courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Army.

Clown Virus

When the United States Army asks the Goodies to get rid of a large container, with the words Tomato soup on its side, they take it out to sea in an attempt to ditch it — but without success.

Conspiracy and siege of the Mountain Meadows massacre

The Mountain Meadows massacre was caused in part by events relating to the Utah War, an 1858 invasion of the Utah Territory by the United States Army which ended up being peaceful.

Dan DeSantis

He served in the United States Army during the second World War as a captain with the 4032nd Army Air Force Base Unit, from March 16, 1942 until his honorable discharge on April 1, 1946.

DeAtley Island

The island was sighted and roughly mapped from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, and was later named by Finn Ronne for Colonel Ellsworth DeAtley, United States Army, and his wife Thelma DeAtley, who contributed clothing and food in support of RARE.

Defender M

TenCate Defender M is a flame-resistant fabric used by both the United States Army and Marine Corps as the uniform material for ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because of new war threats like improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Eau Gallie, Florida

Houston had been sent to the area by the United States Army to determine how many Native Americans were still living in the area after the Third Seminole War.

Echo Round His Bones

Captain Nathan Hansard is an officer of the United States Army in the near future, when a machine has been developed to transmit matter instantly.

European Theater of Operations United States Army

The European Theater of Operations, United States Army (ETOUSA) was a United States Army formation which directed US Army operations in parts of Europe from 1942 to 1945.

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The 133rd Infantry Regiment of the 34th Infantry Division was the first United States Army unit sent to Europe in World War II.

Frank E. Gaebelein

Gaebelein’s studies were interrupted briefly in 1918 to serve in the U.S. Army, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant.

Frank O'Leary

As the son of a career Army officer, O’Leary moved with his family to many different states during his childhood.

Haines, Alaska

Fort William H. Seward, a United States Army installation, was constructed south of Haines in 1904, on property donated by the mission from its holdings.

Hyde Park, Boston

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was one of the first official African-American units in the United States Army and was commanded by Col. Robert G. Shaw, was assembled and trained at Camp Meigs in Readville.

James Earl Reed

Reed and 28-year-old Laurie Rego dated briefly while they were both in the United States Army.

Johann Maier

On 22 April 1945, Reich Defence Commissar Ludwig Ruckdeschel took city defence to the extreme in Regensburg when United States Army tanks had already reached the Danube.

John Paul Woodley, Jr.

On active duty in the United States Army, Woodley served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army from 1979 to 1985.

Key West Agreement

Its most prominent feature was an outline for the division of air assets between the Army, Navy, and the newly created Air Force which, with modifications, continues to provide the basis for the division of these assets in the U.S. military today.

Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States

In this case, the United States filed a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska to condemn the plant of the Kimball Laundry Company in Omaha, Nebraska, for use by the Army.

Little Egg Harbor Township School District

On November 4, 2004, at around 9pm, an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet from the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on a training mission at the Fort Dix United States Army installation in Warren Grove was climbing upward at 8,000 feet.

M. O. Mathai

Mathai worked with the United States Army in India before becoming an assistant to Nehru in 1946.

M106

M106 mortar carrier a tracked, self-propelled artillery vehicle formerly in service with the United States Army

Man Mountain Dean

This trait led to a lifelong interest in competitive sport, and also made it easy for him to lie about his age in order to join the Army at the age of fourteen.

Marston Bigot

Marston House and its grounds were used by the US Army during World War II, and were finally rescued from dereliction in 1984 by John and Angela Yeoman of Foster Yeoman Ltd, and used as the company headquarters.

Mediterranean Theater of Operations

:This page deals with the United States Army's Mediterranean Theater of Operations.

Mixed Terrain Cycle-Touring

By 1886 the United States Army started experimenting with bicycle infantry as a replacement for horses in mixed terrain environments.

Oregon Trail, Wells Springs Segment

Bomb craters near the trail were created by practice bombing runs during World War II, when the range was controlled by the United States Army.

Périers, Manche

Périers was liberated by the 2nd Battalion, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division, of the United States Army, on July 27, 1944.

Police uniforms of the United States

The navy blue uniforms adopted by many police departments in this early period were simply surplus United States Army uniforms from the Civil War.

Ramonchamp

For two months in 1944 the commune found itself on the frontline between German and US forces: Ramonchamp suffered considerably from the bombardments involved.

Redlynch, Somerset

During World War II, the United States Army 3rd Armored Division (spearhead) was based at Redlynch Park.

Robert Eugene Fannin

Before entering the ministry, Robert was part of the J.C. Penney management training program, served in the U.S. Army, and became a representative for Burroughs Corporation.

Sue Niederer

Niederer's son was Second Lieutenant Seth Dvorin, a 24-year-old U.S. Army soldier in the 10th Mountain Division who was killed on February 3, 2004, during the occupation of Iraq.

Thach Thi Ngoc

In 1973, she immigrated to the United States on a fiancée visa, where she married United States Army Lieutenant Colonel John W. Peterkin in New York.

Walker County, Texas

However, Walker later supported the Union during the Civil War; thus, in order to keep the county's name from being changed, it was renamed for Samuel H. Walker, a Texas Ranger and soldier in the American Army.


Aeromarine PG-1

The Aeromarine PG-1 was a single-seat Pursuit and Ground Attack (PG) biplane developed by the Engineering Division of the United States Army and manufactured by the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Co..

Battle of Taegu

The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, immediately deployed armed forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force units) to southeastern South Korea because of their immediate availability from their bases in Japan and Okinawa, where the military occupation of Japan was still in effect (through 1952).

Benjamin Franklin Davis

As sunlight broke, the wagon drivers were startled to discover drawn pistols from their blue-clad escort, and as a result Davis's command not only escaped to Union lines at Greencastle, Pennsylvania, by morning September 15, but also captured Longstreet's forty-wagon reserve ordnance train with no losses.

Bill Epton

"Even as a high school student," the obituary reads, "he demonstrated for civil rights and helped organize unions. He was drafted into the Army and served in the Korean War."

Bonneville County, Idaho

Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after Benjamin Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

Captain Stone House

A native of New Hampshire who served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, Stone moved to Cincinnati after the war and became a leading businessman.

Charles E. Saltzman

Charles E. Saltzman was born on September 19, 1903 in Zamboanga City in the Philippines, where his father, Charles McKinley Saltzman, was a captain in the Signal Corps of the United States Army, serving on the staff of Major General Leonard Wood.

Charles Sterling Hutcheson

He was a private in the United States Army from 1918 to 1919, thereafter entering private practice in Boydton, Virginia from 1920 to 1944.

Dante's Equation

Calder Farris-- Lieutenant in the United States Army and agent for the United States Department of Defense, a violently patriotic sociopath investigating new weapons technology from non-mainstream scientific sources.

Deerfield Beach High School

Allen West, Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district since 2011 and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, taught U.S. history at Deerfield Beach High in the 2004–2005 school year.

Donald Hoobler

Corporal Donald B. Hoobler (June 28, 1922 – January 3, 1945) was a non-commissioned officer who served with the Ohio National Guard from 1940–1941, and later serving with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II.

Donald S. Kellermann

He was a radio broadcaster while serving with the United States Army in Germany during World War II and went to work for the Brooklyn Eagle after leaving Hofstra University.

Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.

Located behind the chancery building was a memorial to the World War II United States Army soldiers who died during the Bakers Creek air crash, the deadliest air disaster in Australian history.

Fort Bowyer

Fort Bowyer was a short-lived earthen and stockade fortification that the United States Army erected in 1813 on Mobile Point, near the mouth of Mobile Bay in Baldwin County, Alabama.

G7 howitzer

In 2004, DLS partnered with General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) to offer the gun in self-propelled form to the United States Army.

Grog

Honoring the 18th century British Army regimental mess and grog's historical significance in the military, the United States Navy, United States Air Force, and United States Army carry on a tradition at its formal dining in ceremonies whereby those in attendance who are observed to violate formal etiquette are "punished" by being sent to "the grog" and publicly drink from it in front of the attendees.

Harrison G. O. Blake

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but instead, with the Civil War raging, entered the United States Army in 1864.

Hood event

On July 4, 2003, soldiers from the United States Army's 173d Airborne Brigade raided a safehouse in the Kurdish-held Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah.

I2 Limited

The i2 Analyst's Notebook was part of the Human Terrain System, a United States Army program which embeds social scientists with combat brigades.

Jake Allex

Aleksa Mandušić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Мандушић), or Jake Allex (July 13, 1887 – August 28, 1959), was a Serbian American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his service in the U.S. Army during World War I.

John Mahnken

He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, then embarked on a professional career in the National Basketball League with the Rochester Royals.

Jon R. Thomas

Thomas spent 1966 through 1969 as a member of the U.S. Special Forces, earning a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.

Legion of the United States

The Legion of the United States was a reorganization and extension of the United States Army from 1792 to 1796 under the command of Major General Anthony Wayne.

Longport, New Jersey

Thomas Cruse (1857–1943), United States Army Brigadier General who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in action in 1882 at the Battle of Big Dry Wash.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Main Navy and Munitions Buildings

At the end of World War I, the Munitions Building housed technical branches, including the Quartermaster General, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Ordnance Corps,

Matanikau Offensive

The Matanikau Offensive, from November 1–4, 1942, sometimes referred to as the Fourth Battle of the Matanikau, was an engagement between United States (U.S.) Marine and Army and Imperial Japanese Army forces around the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II.

Michael Montelongo

Mr. Montelongo entered public service in 1977 as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and completed the U.S. Army Ranger School at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1978.

Mildred Gillars

She was then held by the Counterintelligence Corps at Camp King, Oberursel, along with fellow-collaborators Herbert John Burgman and Donald S. Day until she was conditionally released from custody on December 24, 1946.

National Security Personnel System

Also, employees working at DoD agencies, such as the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Tricare, the Office of the Inspector General and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, earned higher performance ratings and payouts overall than did their civilian counterparts in the three military service branches: United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Air Force.

Paul Morrissey

Morrissey attended Ampleforth College, a private Roman Catholic boarding school and Fordham University, both Roman Catholic schools, and later served in the United States Army.

Provost Sergeant

In the United States Army Military Police Corps or United States Marine Corps Military Police, the title of Provost Sergeant typically refers to the operations sergeant in charge of the staff of the Provost Marshal office or the NCO in charge of an MP station.

Ralph Francis Scalera

He was in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957, afterwhich time he went into private practice in Beaver, Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1959.

Richard Colvin Cox

The following year, Cox served in the Sixth Constabulary Regiment of the United States Army, situated at the time in Coburg, Germany.

Robert F. Fisher

Robert F. Fisher, (February 18, 1879 Plymouth, England - July 20, 1969 Carlotta, California) served in the California legislature and during the Spanish-American War he served in the United States Army.

Roy Laverne Stephenson

He was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve from 1938 to 1941, while serving in private practice in Mapleton, Iowa from 1940 to 1941.

Sapper Tab

The Sapper Tab is a military badge of the United States Army which was authorized on June 28, 2004 by the Army Chief of Staff, General Peter Schoomaker.

Sig Alert

Sigmon had worked for Golden West's station KMPC 710 in 1941, but found himself in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II, assigned to General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff, in charge of non-combat radio communications in the European theater.

The Detached Mission

The CIA officers appoints U.S. Army Major Jack Hessalt as a commanding officer of missile launch command post inside a secret U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean.

Thomas William Sweeny

Thomas William Sweeny (December 25, 1820 – April 10, 1892) was an Irish soldier who served in the Mexican-American War and then was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Toddington Manor

In 1942 the Pioneer Corps built a more permanent hutted encampment, which was occupied by units of the United States Army from October 1942.

William Francis Ganong, Jr.

He was a graduate of Harvard Medical School and served with the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War in which he was part of a medical team that established a MASH unit, the Hemorrhagic Fever Center.