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TheRealNorth

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1. This is fucked up that they still do this

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 12, 2021, 02:07 PM

Mar 2021

But it may go back to WWI when the Army took what had been State regiments and consolidated them into Army Divisions.

So, naturally the regiments from the south traced their ties to Southern Civil War regiments.

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Army continues to honor Confederate unit histories, even as base names draw scrutiny [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2021 OP

This is fucked up that they still do this TheRealNorth Mar 2021 #1

In WWI, The famed Rainbow Div. consisted of units from 26 states and the District of Columbia Kaleva Mar 2021 #2