General Knowledge
The Army Motto
This We’ll Defend
The Army’s most decorated Soldier
Audie Murphy
This WW2 battle was the largest Amphibious Invasion in history.
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
Formed shortly before America’s entrance into WW2, this Division is known as America’s Pacific Division
The 25th ID
The Motto of the 35th IN Regiment
“Take Arms”
The date the Army was established
June 14 1775
This General was the last and most accomplished commander of the Union Army during the Civil War. He later became the 18th President of the United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
This 3 day battle around a small Pennsylvanian Town is considered to be the turning point of the Civil War
The Battle of Gettysburg
This unit was the Army’s first Airborne Division, and took it’s insignia and name from WW1’s “All American” Division.
82nd Airborne Division
The regiment was stood up in this town
Douglas, Arizona
The oldest part of our Army
The National Guard
This Conscientious Objector was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 75 men on top of the Medina Escarpment (Hacksaw Ridge) during the Battle of Okinawa
Desmond Doss
This 2003 battle included the 3rd ID’s famous “Thunder Run” Armored Raids and caused the total collapse of Saddam Hussain’s regime.
The Battle of Baghdad (2003)
The Army’s Premier Light Infantry unit. This unit traces its lineage back to WW2 where it was tasked with many of the war’s toughest operations including the scaling of the cliffs at Point Du Hoc and long-range penetration/guerrilla warfare behind Japanese lines in Burma.
The 75th Ranger Regiment
The first offensive operation that the Regiment took part in under the newly formed 25th ID
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Bloodiest War that the Army has fought
The Civil War
This Tennessee farmer fought in WW1 and received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers, and capturing 132 prisoners.
Alvin York
This 1965 battle was the first major engagement between the US Army and North Vietnamese forces, it was also our first large scale Air Assault operation.
The battle of Ia Drang Valley
This Regiment has served under the 25th ID and 4th ID and traces its lineage back to the conflict on the Mexican Border in the early 20th Century.
The 35th IN Regiment (Cacti)
These were placed on the North Vietnamese/Viet Cong KIA by Charlie Company, so much so that the manufacturer actually sent thousands to the men of C-Co as a show of support and it became a lasting symbol of the Company.
Bicycle Playing Cards Ace of Spades
The date the Army flag was dedicated
June 14th, 1956
These two Delta snipers were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Battle of Mogadishu. They volunteered to be dropped into the crash site of the downed Blackhawk Super 64, fully knowing their odds of survival were slim, in order to defend the wounded and trapped crew.
Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon
The US Army’s first major offensive of WW1.
Chateau-Thierry
This joint American-Canadian unit was developed in WW2 to take on various special operations missions. It was the the early prototype of what would become the US Army Special Forces, and its unit patch inspired both the SF and Delta patch.
The First Special Service Force (The Devils Brigade)
The name of 3rd Plt Apache’s PL that was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading his men in a harrowing firefight on March 12, 1967
Stephen E Karopczyc