Round shaped, brass colored coin, 1-9/16 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • Wisconsin Army National Guard
  • 32nd Separate Infantry Brigade (Lt.)
Location
Coin Location: 21P4
Homebase: Camp Douglas, Wisconsin
Additional Information
Date Acquired: Prior to 21 March 2008
Donated by: Unknown
Copies: 1 of 1

C002925

Location: 21P4 Height: 1.56

Coin: Unit

National Guard » U.S. Army » Infantry

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Round shaped, brass colored coin, 1-9/16 inches in diameter.

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The 32nd Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) is, with 3,900 soldiers, Wisconsin's largest Army National Guard unit. The 32nd Infantry Brigade was a mechanized unit assigned as part of the Minnesota-based 34th Infantry Division. It started transitioning to become a separate light infantry brigade in September 2002.

The brigade is descended from the 32nd "Red Arrow" Division, an infantry outfit formed of Wisconsin and Michigan Guardsmen mobilized in 1916. The division earned its distinctive insignia, a vertical red arrow through a horizontal red bar, by piercing every enemy line it encountered in four World War I campaigns.