When Frank Armiger, the national leader of an advocacy group for the historic military unit known as the 29th Infantry Division, first learned that a national commission was considering retiring ...

He wore it the next day, too, as his unit in the 29th Infantry Division secured a position behind enemy lines under heavy fire, and for another 11 months amid some of the bloodiest fighting in ...

Steven Melnikoff, 102, a D-Day veteran, objects strongly to changing the blue-and-gray patch of the 29th Infantry Division. He wore the patch during the invasion of Normandy in 1944 and while ...

The 29th Infantry Division of the Army National Guard will keep its patch that was in danger of being retired due to its references to soldiers in the Confederate Army.

Epperly took command of the 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in 2012. Following brigade command, he served as the 29th Infantry Division G3 (Operations).

CAMP ASAKA, Japan Aca,!" A task force of the 29th Infantry Division, composed of Virginia and Maryland National Guardsmen, conducted two weeks of training near Tokyo with the Japanese Ground Self ...

The 29th Infantry Division is headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and is the major formation for that state's National Guard and one of the most high-profile elements of the service component.

Thousands of soldiers with the 29th Infantry Division were among the first wave of troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy in the U.S.-led invasion of France in 1944. When the doors to the ...

Members of the 29th Infantry Division affix the Global War on Terrorism campaign streamer to the division’s colors during a ceremony, May 5, 2018, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. (Sgt. Marc Heaton ...

The 29th Infantry Division patch commemorates soldiers from the North and South joining together, and will be retained.

The commission also recommended a change to the description text of the blue-and-gray shoulder patch worn by the Army’s 29th Infantry Division but said the design of the patch could stay the same.