United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th
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United States. Army. Parachute Infantry, 506th
United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th
United States. Army. PIR, 506th
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found: Its Scrapbook, 1945?
found: The road to Arnhem, 1999:CIP galley (506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 101st Airborne Division; 506th PIR)
found: E-mail from US Army Heritage and Education Center, US Army Military History Institute, Technical Services Branch, Nov. 21, 2008(the 506th PIR was constituted in July 1942 and was deactivated in 1980. Starting in 1957, the Army started looking at reorganizing the Army so that it could respond quickly, be more mobile, flexible, and have greater firepower during the Cold War. Regiments were seen as being too clumsy with their fixed organization. The Army moved to the Pentomic Division organization (which saw Battle Groups instead of infantry battalions) but was quickly seen as not working. The DOD adopted CARS (Combat Arms Regimental System) in 1957 and had implemented it by the early '60s prior to the Vietnam War. This system was designed to provide a flexible regimental structure that would permit perpetuation of unit history and tradition. In this reorganization all of the regimental headquarters were transferred to the Department of Army - leaving the regiment with no regimental headquarters, and thus no longer a regiment. "Regiment" became an historic and heraldic term and was dropped from the unit designation ... in 1981, CARS was replaced with the US Army Regimental System, which would required soldiers to have continuous identification with a regiment, and the term "Regiment" was added back into unit designations)
notfound: 1st Airborne Battle Group, 506th Infantry, 1963
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1980-12-09: new
2008-11-21: revised
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