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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 91. Chapters: 100th Infantry Division (United States), 108th Training Command (Initial Entry Training), 180th Cavalry Regiment (United States), 19th Division (United States), 24th Infantry Division (United States), 26th Infantry Division (United States), 279th Infantry Regiment (United States), 27th Infantry Regiment (United States), 28th Infantry Division (United States), 30th Infantry Division (United States), 31st Infantry Division (United States), 35th Infantry Regiment (United States), 36th Infantry Division (United States), 37th Infantry Division (United States), 39th "Delta" Division, 39th Infantry Division (United States), 40th Infantry Division (United States), 69th Infantry Regiment (New York), 80th Division (United States), 84th Division (United States). Excerpt: The 39th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the Army National Guard, originally formed as the 18th Division in 1917. The Division consisted of troops from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. After training at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, the division was deployed to France but did not see combat before the end of World War I. The division was reorganized after World War II with troops from Louisiana and Arkansas and its headquarters in Louisiana. In 1967, the 39th Infantry Division was reorganized to become the 39th Infantry Brigade (Separate). Its headquarters is in Little Rock, Arkansas and the unit consists entirely of troops from the Arkansas Army National Guard. The Militia Act of 1903 (32 Stat. 775), also known as the Dick Act, organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system. The act was passed in response to the demonstrated weaknesses in the militia, and in the entire U.S. military in the Spanish-American War of 1898. U.S. Senator Charles W. F. Dick, a Major General in the Ohio National Guard and the chair of...