What type of Unit/Army are you interested in?

[Widebrim]

"The Topsail Rifles," Company H, 10th Regiment N.C. State Troops (1st Regiment N.C. Artillery)...my paternal great, great grandfather's unit.

Below, the two of us together.

AF

Nice photo, AF. :eusa_clap

 

[Atticus Finch]

Nice photo, AF. :eusa_clap

Thanks. My girlfriend took it a couple of years ago. She's fond of calling it the "Gay Author" photo. Says it should be on the back cover of some Faulknerian novel about a wealthy, but pitifully dysfunctional, Southern family.

AF

 

[Chasseur]

Mostly interested in French colonial/African Army troops and units, the Marines, Legion, etc. between 1880s and 1960s.

Also, interest in Indian Army, both pre and post independence.

 

[the hairy bloke]

One other unit I am interested in, and, thinking about the warsaw Ghetto re-enactment thread; Britan's Jewish Brigade, whhich faught through Italy & Germany

 

[p51]

Oh, I totally forgot:

• 91nd Bomb Group. I'm a life member of their association.

[noting my comment on being in the 2nd ID]: fftopic: Me, too. Stryker?

Yep, 3rd Brigade, during the transition between a mech unit and what eventually became the Stryker concept. I went round and round with TRADOC and people from the Pentagon every couple of weeks, along with contractors and various nations' militaries, testing Italian, German, Canadian and other vehicles before we settled on the LAV3 before the Strykers were anything but a blueprint. Didn't even have a name for them at that point...[huh]

I used to keep a copy of this in a frame and let people guess what kind of vehicle it was. It's a WW2 German tank at Aberdeen Proving Ground:

 

[Aristaeus]

A.V.G., American Eagle Squadrons, Afrika Korps, 7th U.S. Cavalry (1866-1876).


"until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
Winston Churchill.

 

[Silver Dollar]

Oh man, how could I forget the AVG and the Eagle Squadrons. Shame on me.