Red Falcons Set the Standard; Join Elite Brotherhood
Story by Sgt. Matthew Ryan for DVIDS
“It is part of a brotherhood that paratroopers in the infantry have to earn,” said 1st Sgt. Daymond Graves, company first sergeant, A Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. The road to earning the Expert Infantryman Badge is a true test of an infantryman’s skill and mastery of his environment, he said. In 1944, 100 non-commissioned officers of the 100th Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., were selected to undergo three days of concentrated testing to determine the Army’s first Expert Infantrymen. Upon completion of testing, only ten NCOs remained. These ten had to then undergo a board of peers. On March 29, 1944, Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, commander of Army …
Elizabeth
6:45 pm on Friday, April 6, 2012
Way to go Falcon Brigade. more ›