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From: cmort@ncoast.org
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Subject: Re: 6th Light Infantry
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Date: 22 Apr 91 10:46:49 GMT
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>From: boebert@SCTC.COM (Earl Boebert)
>Could someone post the TO&E for the 6th Light Infantry Division (Ft.
>Richardson AK)?  Also, how does one properly expand the string 1/501
>(ABN) INF?  I get the Airborne Infantry part, but from previous
>postings on Army TO&E I can't tell whether the 501st is properly
>referred to as a Regiment or a Brigade.

1st Battalion, 501st Infantry(Regiment).  Regiment is mostly a term of art
outside of Armored Cavalry Regiments, since they're otherwise no longer used
as a tactical unit.  It's a heraldic concept, but they're pretty fast and
loose about shuffling "regimental" designations.  The 31st Infantry was
supposed to go out of existence entirely or have it's colors transferred to
a training unit at Ft. Benning.  The PHYSICAL unit that maintained them was
going to remain at Camp Howze, Korea with a DIFFERENT designation.  I don't 
know if any of this actually came to pass.

cmort@ncoast.org --- Chris Morton
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