Specifics on unit numbers (Fort Knox basic training) (Army, reserve, platoon)
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I know that when I went to basic training at Ft. Dix, A-1-26 meant Alpha Co. 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment. I'm not sure of what the 8 and 4 signify in the above unit.
8-4 so not a cavalry regiment which would have been 8/4. I don't know about 1972 but a decade later the 4th Training Brigade was the general basic training unit and during summers the R.O.T.C. Basic Camp at Fort Knox where as the 1st Training Brigade took recruits destined for armored and cavalry units. So Echo Company 8th Battalion 4th Training Brigade.
Probably because armored forces are as young as aviation and only the 2nd Armored Division in WWII was in the triangle regimental organization the basic training units at Fort Knox did not carry regimental designations but brigade identity. Thus is different from say the Infantry regiments doing basic training at say Fort Jackson.
The armored forces were mostly independent battalions chopped down to infantry division or when part of the other armored divisions assigned to the brigade like Combat Command (A, B and Reserve) headquarters as the mission dictated.
The Cavalry being much older and historic do carry those regimental distinctions as compared to the modern "armored regiments" as those were set to mirror the rest of the army took their colors from a WWII tank battalions.
Now that armored force training has moved to Fort Benning I think Fort Knox retains the brigade identify but has an even greater percentage of R.O.T.C. training as the Advanced camps have moved for Fort Lewis, Fort Riley and I forgot the other two regions to Fort Knox along with the Basic Camp.
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