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Dedication edit
This compilation of Wikipedia Articles is dedicated to the Fallen Heroes of the 39th Brigade Combat Team who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their unit, state and nation. Bowie Team!
Current Projects edit
I am currently working on the following articles:
- User:Aleutian06/Siege of Fayettville
- User:Aleutian06/List of Confederate military camps in Arkansas
- User:Aleutian06/13th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
Split of Arkansas Army National Guard edit
I helped split the larger article Arkansas Army National Guard into smaller articles. I am now working back through the articles in an attempt to get them all up to "B" status.
- Template:Arkansas National Guard Series
- Arkansas National Guard
- Arkansas Territorial Militia
Done - Arkansas Militia and the War with Mexico Done
- Arkansas Militia in the Civil War Done
- Arkansas Militia in Reconstruction Done
- Arkansas State Guard and the Spanish-American War
- Arkansas Air National Guard
- Arkansas National Guard and the Intergration of Central High School Done
- Arkansas National Guard during World War I Done
- Arkansas National Guard and World War II Done
- Arkansas Army National Guard and the Cold War Done
- Arkansas Army National Guard and the Global War on Terrorism
- Arkansas Army National Guard and the Korean War
- Arkansas Army National Guard in Operation Desert Storm
- The Militia Clause, United States Constitution
Awards edit
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The Original Barnstar | |
| Awarded to Aleutian06 for his contributions relating to the United States military. AustralianRupert (talk) 05:22, 21 July 2010 (UTC) |
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The Epic Barnstar | |
| For all your work around topics relating to the Arkansas National Guard. Keep up the good work. AustralianRupert (talk) 01:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC) |
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The WikiChevrons | |
| For doing outstanding work creating a model for volunteer editors in the United States Military History Community to follow in creating the series on the Arkansas National Guard. Keep up the good work, and discuss it with your fellow military historians, Sadads (talk) 03:02, 17 November 2010 (UTC) |
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The United States Barnstar of National Merit | |
| Awarded to Aleutian06, as part of AustralianRupert's 2012 New Year Honours List, in recognition of their work relating to the Arkansas National Guard throughout 2011. Thank you and keep up the good work! AustralianRupert (talk) 10:31, 31 December 2011 (UTC) |
Create a Book edit
One great feature of Wikipedia is the Create a Book function. A user can select several articles and upload them to a publisher who will return a very nicely bound soft cover books with the selected articles, a table of contents and an index at the end. The user can select a title and photo or artwork the front cover. The book takes approximately 15 days to arrive at your home.
List of Books assembled by this user: [User:Aleutian06/Books/]
User:Aleutian06/Dedication and Foreword from Damon Cluck, editor
Book:History of the 39th Infantry Division
Book:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units
Book:Arkansas Confederate Artillery Units
Book:Arkansas Confederate Cavalry Units
A Note on the Histories of Military Units edit
Every military unit in the United States Army has a history, which reads like a family tree for that particular unit. The unit's "Birth Certificate" is it's Lineage and Honors certificate which details the history of the various organizations from which the current unit is said to descend. These histories can often read like the marriage history of an extremely dysfunctional family, with various units constantly being organized, reorganize, redesignated, consolidated, constituted and reconstituted. For National Guard Units these histories can become even more confusing because according to Army Regulation 870–5, [1] the history of a National Guard unit is tied to the parent or preceding unit and to the unit's geographic station, or hometown. Thus the local National Guard unit may currently be an Artillery Battalion, but its Lineage and Honor's Certificate may refer to the unit being reorganized from an Infantry unit in the past, because that was the type of unit assigned to that hometown at some point in the past.
These Lineage and Honors certificates also track the military campaigns, engagements, and honors, or awards which the unit has won in various wars. The United States Army Center of Military History currently tracks over 179 separate campaigns and engagements for which a unit may be entitle to credit.[2] These campaigns and engagements stretch all the way back to the earliest days of the American Revolution up through the current Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
It is from these Lineage and Honors certificates that military units draw their histories and traditions. It can be said that these histories are even more important to National Guard units because of their close ties to the local community. It is not uncommon to visit the local National Guard Armory and find it hosting a reunion of veterans from the local Guard Unit, or one of it's parent organizations, from World War II, Korea, Operation Desert Storm or some other operation or time period. The current military organizations draw on the good will and support of these former members for assistance in current operations, whether its assistance with sponsoring a welcome home ceremony for the newest veterans returning form the most recent deployment, or lobbying for improved equipment and training for the units.
So the next time you are in the local Anytown National Guard Armory and you see a rather decrepit looking certificate detailing the exploits for the local Guard unit in some training exercise or competition from fifty years ago, and you wonder why a modern organization would be interested in preserving such an outdated document, know that there is probably some veteran of that unit, or one of it's parent organizations, who regularly visits the local armory, may be not as often as he used to, but as often as time and health will allow, to ensure that the history of his organization is being preserved.
It is for this reason that it is so important that new members of current military units thoroughly indoctrinated on the history and traditions of their organization, its campaigns, and it's stations. Some day that visiting veteran may be you or me.
Sources edit
I am working with the Arkansas Military History Roundtable to develope a bibliography of Arkansas Militia and National Guard History. I am storing the sources at User:Damon.cluck/Bibliography of Arkansas National Guard History.
- User:Aleutian06/Civil War Related References
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas State Military Board Records
- User:Aleutian06/Miller County Problems
- User:Aleutian06/Reorganization of 1967
- User:Aleutian06/Reorganization of 1996
- User:Aleutian06/Mobilization for World War II
- User:Aleutian06/Kie Oldham Papers
- User:Aleutian06/39th Division History for Roundtable
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Militia Law of 1860
- User:Aleutian06/EXTRACT FROM CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, RELATING TO THE MILITIA
- User:Aleutian06/TO THE MILITIAMEN OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
- User:Aleutian06/Militia Organization of 1837
- User:Aleutian06/Militia Orders 1825-1848
- User:Aleutian06/Volunteer Companies Raised After Secession
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Newpaper reports on Militia
On Going Projects edit
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Confederate Infantry Unit Histories
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Regiment of Mounted Volunteers
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Confederate Cavalry Unit Histories
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Confederate Artillery Unit Histories
- User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Union Civil War Unit Histories
- User:Aleutian06/Volunteer Companies
- User:Aleutian06/Volunteer Companies organized in the Militia
References edit
- ^ Army Regulation 870–5 Historical Activities Military History: Responsibilities, Policies, and Procedures 870–5 • 21 September 2007,
- ^ United States Army Center of Military History, Determination of Official Army Campaigns, Retrieved 28 Jan 2010, http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/campaigns.html