FORT HOOD, Texas – Following the announcement for its call to overseas service to support Operation Spartan Shield, the Virginia Army National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division (29th ID) successfully ...

KOUVOLA, Finland – Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Fort Belvoir-based 29th Infantry Division Headquarters participated in the ...

The Army National Guard will get to keep its famed 29th Infantry Division patch with references to the Confederacy after a review from a commission established by Congress to consider removing ...

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, the military is going through a reckoning of sorts, ridding itself of memorials to the Confederacy. At least one National Guard unit patch will ...

The U.S. Army National Guard's 29th Infantry Division is keeping its patch that honors service in the Confederate Army. "We applaud the decision of the Naming Commission to recommend the 29th Infantry ...

WASHINGTON — The commission charged with eliminating commemoration of the Confederacy in the U.S. military recommended Monday that the Army ban the flying of Confederate campaign streamers on unit ...

A commission tasked with reviewing the names of military bases and symbols that can be perceived as commemorating the Confederate States of America is recommending that the 29th Infantry Division — a ...

Staff Sgt. Anthony Denton (left), a multiband hub section chief, and Pfc. Melanie Tobias, a satellite communications system operator-maintainer, both with the 29th Infantry Division s Signal ...

Steve Melnikoff wore the patch during the D-Day invasion of Europe 78 years ago as he crouched in a tank landing ship off Omaha Beach, German artillery shells screaming over his head. He wore it the ...

Following the announcement for its call to overseas service as Task Force Spartan, Virginia Army National Guard’s Fort Belvoir-based 29th Infantry Division successfully conducted its mobilization at ...