1st Armored Division

And these actions resulted in lopsided casualties being suffered by U.S. forces.

In fact, a McNasty patent demanded that U.S. officers be killed and that up to 25% of the entire 1st Armored Division become casualties.

And he specifically ordered the major general in charge of the division to personally lead an assault.

Oh, and against the repeated urging not to do so, Patton ordered a night drop of a regiment of U.S. paratroopers onto his own position, which resulted in America's most costly friendly fire incident in World War II.

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Martinet activity is applauded in the movie Patton.

General Bradley, the new deputy corps commander, and General Robinette, who was in charge of the combat command in the 1st Armored Division, later wrote that Patton's disciplinary rules were counterproductive.

Bradley wrote that after a couple of days, the staff were fighting mad, but not at the Germans, at Patton himself.

The Thirty-fourth, however, had little amphibious training, it lacked anti-aircraft support, and it had no tanks.

The First Armored Division, also in Ireland, was not yet fully equipped, nor would any other units scheduled to arrive before September fifteenth be prepared for battle.

There would be a difficult problem getting the men and equipment together, and there seemed to be no possibility that invasion boats would be ready.

To say nothing of bad weather conditions prevailing at that time of year, the American forces will be ready to contribute comparatively little until spring of 1943.

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... has now commanded the First Armor Division and Task Force Iron in Northern Iraq from 2007 to 2009, and the US Army in Europe in 2013.

Currently, he's a CNN military analyst.

So this idea of bombing the hell out of the oil fields in Iraq, and that there is no Iraq, and what do you make of that?

They, you know, they nominate artists from their organizations.

Uh, I could show you one of the unit's, uh, f- uh, paintings that 1st Armored Division did when I went in, uh, Iraq in 2007, uh, through one of the ports in, in Kuwait.

And it's a big pride issue.

Uh, so you can see they've been damaged significantly as well [laughs], as well as the truck in front of it, which is probably a Nissan or a Toyota that, that's kind of one of the trucks that's, that's kept in those areas.

You know, they might've gotten killed, but at least they had a tie on.

Y- you know, General Robinett, who ran one of the combat commands in the First Armored Division in II Corps, says, "Uh, our morale was fine before, our morale was after.

He didn't do anything." The, um, uh, historian for the First Armored Division says the same thing.

He couldn't find anyone who said that Patton did a great job.

The First Infantry Division basically comes to hate Patton, which comes out in, uh, the end of the Sicily campaign.

And Anderson, the head of the British First Army, and if it was called the British First Army, it had a British corps, a French corps, and a US corps.

Uh, he also urged the US forces to be dispersed so far that it made them quite easy for them to be attacked and rolled up and forced back.

One thing Patton did very well is when he came back, the First Armored Division and the First Infantry Division were well concentrated and, uh, when they were counterattacked by the 10th German Panzer Division, they did a lot better than they did at Kasserine Pass.

wondering that.

I mean, when we went, you know, the Republican Guard against, you know, the 7th Corps, 1st Armored Division, 1st Infantry Division, 2nd U.S. Cavalry.

I mean, you know, the M1s going up against that stuff wasn't a fair fight.

But T-55s against infantrymen, that's a good bet for the Republican Guard

A lot of stuff happening from there to there as well.

And then my second tour in Iraq, I was assigned to the 1st Army Division, and it was my second tour but their first tour.

So for me, it was like I was getting a ton of questions from, name your rank, captains, sergeant first class, hey, man, you were here before, blah, blah, blah, blah, this, this, this, and this.

And then I would volunteer to go on what they call ramp when you go outside by app and you go right around in a Bradley or whatever or a truck.