TABLE 30
National Guard Divisions and Brigades, 1968
Unit | Location |
26th Infantry Division | Massachusetts and Connecticut |
28th Infantry Division | Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia |
30th Armored Division | Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee |
30th Infantry Division (M)* | North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia |
38th Infantry Division | Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio |
42d Infantry Division | New York and Pennsylvania |
47th Infantry Division | Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota |
50th Armored Division | New Jersey, New York, and Vermont |
29th Infantry Brigade | Hawaii and California |
32d Infantry Brigade | Wisconsin |
33d Infantry Brigade | Illinois |
36th Infantry Brigade | Texas |
39th Infantry Brigade | Arkansas |
40th Armored Brigade | California |
40th Infantry Brigade | California |
41st Infantry Brigade | Oregon |
45th Infantry Brigade | Oklahoma |
49th Infantry Brigade | California |
53d Infantry Brigade | Florida |
67th Infantry Brigade (M)* | Nebraska |
69th Infantry Brigade | Kansas |
7Ist Airborne Brigade | Texas |
72d Infantry Brigade (M)* | Texas |
8Ist Infantry Brigade | Washington |
92d Infantry Brigade | Puerto Rico |
256th Infantry Brigade | Louisiana |
*Mechanized. |
ed of the maneuver elements, an artillery battalion, an engineer company, a medical company, a forward support maintenance company, and an administrative section. The remainder of each division was located in the state with the division base. Infantry divisions had ten maneuver battalions, as did the mechanized infantry divisions, except the 47th, which had eleven. The 30th and 50th Armored Divisions had ten and eleven maneuver battalions, respectively. A single state maintained each of the eighteen separate brigades, except for the 29th (Hawaii), which had elements in the continental United States.[1]
The Army Reserve brigades also felt McNamara's axe. Initially the Defense Department planned no combat forces for the Army Reserve, but congressional
- ↑ Report of the Chief, National Guard Bureau, 1968, pp. 33–34; Keith E. McWilliams, "Divisions or Brigades for the National Guard," Military Review 51 (Jan 1971): 37; also NG-AROTO 1002–I letters 1967–1968, copies in CMH.