News

The U.S. Army National Guard's 29th Infantry Division is keeping its patch that honors service in the Confederate Army. "We applaud the decision of the Naming Commission to recommend the 29th ...
Now, in light of a reckoning over Confederate monuments for their racist history, the storied 29th Infantry Division patch – a yin-yang pattern with blue and grey -- is being reviewed for ...
The 29th Infantry Division is headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and is the major formation for that state's National Guard and one of the most high-profile elements of the service component ...
Members of the 29th Infantry Division affix the Global War on Terrorism campaign streamer to the division’s colors during a ceremony, May 5, 2018, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. (Sgt. Marc Heaton ...
The commission also gave notice that it would recommend that the Army’s official description of 29th Infantry Division heraldry be changed to remove language that can be viewed as suggesting ...
When Frank Armiger, the national leader of an advocacy group for the historic military unit known as the 29th Infantry Division, first learned that a national commission was considering retiring th… ...
Steven Melnikoff, 102, a D-Day veteran, objects strongly to changing the blue-and-gray patch of the 29th Infantry Division. He wore the patch during the invasion of Normandy in 1944 and while ...