I received the Arctic Service Medal today and it's got one brilliant thing about it - the obverse of the medal is convex, so when you look at it, the planchet looks like you're looking at the top of a globe!  That should drive the flat-earthers bonkers. Bravo Zulu, medal designer!     Mark sends

the 25th Infantry Division and the 25th Infantry Regt are not the same

Yard sailing in the rain today.   Young Marine shirt the was worn by a 7-9 year old towards the end of the Vietnam war but he didn’t go into the Marines.    

I hate it when it rains on my parade. But I guess the pub owners didn’t mind the bad weather.  Oh what a nice doggie!  I hope the weather improves for the rest of the festivities .  mikie

Thanks so much. There was a stray patch of the 25th and wondered. 

Fort Benning GA falls into the Third Army District

Post World War II [edit] Right after the 25th Infantry Regiment was inactivated in February 1946 at Camp Stoneman, California, it was brought back to life during the period February–May 1946 at Fort Benning, Georgia. But first, the 107th Regimental Combat Team (RCT) (Colored) is worth mentioning and is part of this story. First Army activated the 107th RCT at Fort Benning, Georgia on 21 February 1946. Built around the 107th Infantry Regiment, it was activated with all the required supporting forces: the 571st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm Howitzer, Truck Drawn); 22d Medium Tank Company; 973d Engineer Combat Company; and the 375th Medical Collecting Company. The 107th had recently been assigned the 196th Army Ground Forces Band (Colored) from Camp Shelby, Mississippi. The 107th RCT had an assigned strength of 139 officers, 7 warrant officers, and 2,662 enlisted men. Officer personnel were white and colored while enlisted personnel were all colored. The 107th RCT history would be short-lived. On 21 March 1946, the 107th would be reflagged as the 25th Regimental Combat Team (Colored) assigned to Fourth Headquarters, First Army and would inherit all the units of the 107th RCT minus the 107th Infantry Regiment. The first commander of the 25th RCT was Colonel (later BG) Robert L. Dulaney a veteran of WWII in Europe. On 6 April, the regiment was selected to march in the Army Day parade down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. representing all veterans from WWI and WWII. On 18 April 1946, the entire 25th RCT moved to the Sand Hill area of Fort Benning. In May 1946, the 25th RCT activated its 3d Battalion which had been unfilled since 21 March 1946. With the new 3d battalion now part of the 25th RCT, personnel would increase by 139 officers, 5 warrant officers, and 2810 enlisted personnel for a 25th RCT total of approximately 4,000 soldiers. In early November 1946, the 25th RCT regimental colors were returned to the unit in a ceremony at the 25th RCT parade grounds at the Sand Hill area. Also in November 1946, the 25th RCT established a new two-year educational program geared towards enlisted soldiers lacking education below the 8th grade. As part of their training, the program was designed to raise to an 8th grade level those students that fell into the educational sub-par brackets of IV and V on the Army General Classification Test. Some 1,900 25th RCT students began the program in early November 1946 at Fort Benning, Georgia.

. Well today is the third day of RAIN. !!!!!   It rained for the third day in succession, and at times it's quite a biblical amount, The vehicle parade was delayed and not very successful today as crowds were unwilling to stand to watch this.  The jump planes passed over quite low due to cloud cover, the UK friend visiting this week had a conversation on the ferry with a member of the aircraft restoration teams at Duxford airfield and he said he was here as ground support for a USN version of the C47 I believe it's called an R47D.   So no parade and we adjourned to the bar for the afternoon and we spoke with so many people of various nationalities, French, Dutch, Americans, British, Belgians, Germans, two of the Am Erica's we spoke with are doctors on a destroyer moored in Cherbourg. The German soldiers are actually based in France, the one Belgian guy had his huge Newfoundland dog with him, what a beaut and so friendly.               Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 05   2O25.    ….

I was given this British pattern bayonet, which is well outside of my knowledge base. There are no British proofs anywhere on it. I tried to find the markings that are present but came up with nothing. There is an ST with a Q underneath of it on the blade, an S on the side of the socket, and a number (616 or 919) on the back of the socket. The construction quality seems to be poor compared to the British marked examples I have. The fullers in the blade are off center as well as the screw for the retaining ring. It fits well on a 1862 Springfield so I'm pretty sure it's a P-1853 pattern. Is this just a normal export bayonet?