US Army Training Center Fort Ord - Yearbook (Fort Ord, CA)

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The Sixth Division was originally organized November 26, 1917, at Camp McClellan, Alabama. After winning battle honors during World War I in Alsace, Meuse and the Argonne, it was inactivated at Camp Grant, Illinois, September 30, 1921. In October 1939 the Sixth was reactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington. It was redesignated the Sixth Motorized Division April 9, 1942, and was later re¬ named the Sixth Infantry Division May 21,1943. After World War II service in New Guinea and Luzon, the unit was inactivated in Korea January 10, 1949. At the outbreak of the present emergency, the Sixth Infantry Division was returned to active service in October, 1950, at Fort Ord, California. The First Infantry Regiment, one of the nation ' s oldest fighting units, was first constituted March 3, 1791. Its men have participated in every war in which our country has been engaged since that time. The regiment was assigned to the Sixth Infantry Division in October 1939. The 20th Infantry Regiment was originally organized as the Second Battalion, I 15th Infantry Regiment, for Civil War service May 4, 1861. It was expanded to the 20th Infantrv Reaiment in 1918. The 20th was assigned to the Sixth The three Infantry regiments were deactivated in Korea in Janu¬ ary 1949, along with the Sixth Division. Similarly the three units were reactivated at Fort Ord, October 1950. The division artillery of the Sixth Infantry Division joined the unit at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, in Octo¬ ber 1940. At present the division artillery supervises the Specialist Schools and the Leaders Course which are part of the division train¬ ing program. jp| - Tfl -a WnM li-W -%n

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