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First Guards Tank Army. Lipatkin's IS-2 tank supporting infantry in Berlin, 27 April. After Kursk, 1st Tank Army participated in the Proskurov-Chernovtsy Operation, the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation, the Vistula-Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin. It was awarded a Guards title and became the 1st Guards Tank Army in April 1944, and Katukov was ...
Red Guard units were created in March 1917 at manufacturing companies by Factory and Plant Committees and by some communist-inclined party cells (Bolsheviks, Left Socialist Revolutionaries, others). The Red Guards formations were based on the worker's strike forces of the Russian Revolution of 1905 .
The Kremlin Regiment (‹See Tfd› Russian: Кремлёвский полк, romanized: Kremlyovskiy polk), also called the Presidential Regiment (‹See Tfd› Russian: Президентский полк, romanized: Prezidentskiy polk), is a unique military regiment and part of the Russian Federal Protective Service with the status of a special unit.
The 13th Guards Poltava Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division (Russian: 13-я гвардейская стрелковая Полтавская ордена Ленина дважды Краснознамённая орденов Суворова и Кутузова дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army that was highly decorated during ...
Soldiers and leaders of the 1- 94th Cavalry Regiment, a squadron of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, gathered at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, April 3, to case their colors as the 1/34th BCT prepares to leave country and go back to Minnesota. In 1959, the 1st Battalion Headquarters and Heavy Mortar Company were consolidated as ...
Insignia. Distinctive Unit Insignia. The 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team (30th ABCT[2] or " Old Hickory ") [1] is a modular heavy brigade of the United States Army National Guard. 30th ABCT relieved 3rd ABCT/4ID in Kuwait, 1 November 2019. [3] They returned to the U.S. in September 2020 and were replaced by the 2nd ABCT/1AD.
Guards units (Russian: Гвардия, romanized: Gvardiya) were elite units and formations in the Soviet Armed Forces that continue to exist in the Russian Armed Forces and other post-Soviet states. These units were awarded Guards status after distinguishing themselves in wartime service, and are considered to have elite status.
The Guards formation was created on 1 January 1975 as the 7th Singapore Infantry Brigade (7 SIB) with four officers, five specialists and a few clerks. [7] [8] 7 SIB subsequently took command of the Infantry Training Depot (ITD) on 1 January 1976 and the 7th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment (7 SIR) and 8th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment (8 SIR) on 9 February 1976.