Good luck in your search. Don't know if you're familiar with the history, but The 'Dick Act of 1916' established what is now known as "The National Guard". Prior to that, each state had it's own army.....er....ah....."militia". In times of National Emergency, militia units could "volunteer" for Federal service. So naturally, there were a lot of "26th US VOLUNTEERS. The problem is finding out WHAT STATE they came from. Example: Teddy Roosevelt and his '1st US Volunteer Cavalry'. The US Army already had a "1st US Cavalry".....hence the insertion of the word VOLUNTEER in the title of Teddy's unit. Makes for a lot of confusion.
On another note, used to be that the military would append the YEAR to the description of a piece of equipment that was adopted/issued. Made sense. Then in 1936 the military decided that each new piece of equipment would be designated "M1" or (Model 1), followed by M2, M3 etc. So, today, with a computer.....search for "M1". Rifle? Carbine? Radio? Mess gear? Helmet? Bayonet? Kind of explains why we have the "M16 rifle" and the "M4 carbine".
Last edited by Dan Shapiro; 04-17-2017 at 04:02.
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