Indiana Army National Guard

Indiana Army National Guard
File:INNG-updated-logo.png Logo of the Indiana National Guard File:INNG-alternate-logo.png Alternate Logo
Country	United States
Type	Armed Forces
Part of	United States Armed Forces United States Department of Defense National Guard Bureau
Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ)	Stout Army Air Field Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Motto(s)	Always Ready, Always There
Website	www.in.gov/indiana-national-guard/indiana-army-national-guard/
Commanders
Governor of Indiana	Governor Eric Holcomb
The Adjutant General of Indiana	MG R. Dale Lyles
State Command Sergeant Major	CSM Dale A. Shetler

The Indiana Army National Guard (INARNG) is a federal military reserve force of the United States Army, one of three components of the Indiana National Guard, and part of the National Guard of the United States.

Indiana Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same enlisted and officer ranks and insignia are used, and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards. The Indiana Army National Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the state of Indiana.

Units

File:38th Infantry Division SSI.svg38th Infantry Division ("Cyclone")

Main article: 38th Infantry Division (United States)

• Headquarters and Headquarters Company
• 38th Infantry Division Band

File:38SustainBdeSSI.jpg38th Sustainment Brigade ("Avengers")

• Headquarters and Headquarters Company
• 38th Special Troops Battalion
• 190th Motor Transportation Battalion
• 519th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion

File:38th Infantry Division SSI.svg38th Combat Aviation Brigade ("Falcons")

• Headquarters and Headquarters Company
• 2nd Battalion, 238th General Support Aviation Battalion
• 1st Battalion, 137th Aviation Regiment
• DET 1, Company C, 1st Battalion, 136th Aviation Regiment
• 638th Aviation Support Battalion

File:76th IBCT shoulder sleeve insignia.jpg76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Nighthawk Brigade")

• File:151st INF REGT DUI.png1st Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment
• File:151st INF REGT DUI.png2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment
• File:152nd INF REGT DUI.png2nd Battalion, 152nd Infantry Regiment
• File:293rd INF REGT DUI.png1st Battalion, 293rd Infantry Regiment
• File:152nd INF REGT DUI.png1st Squadron, 152nd Cavalry Regiment
• File:163rd FA REGT DUI.png1st Battalion, 163rd Field Artillery Regiment
• File:113th Sustainment BN.png113th Brigade Support Battalion
• File:776th BEB DUI.png776th Brigade Engineer Battalion

54th Security Force Assistance Brigade ("To the Very End")

Main article: 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade

File:219th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade CSIB.svg219th Engineer Brigade ("Steel Soldiers - Anytime, Anywhere")

Main article: 219th Engineer Brigade (United States)

• Headquarters and Headquarters Company
• File:113th EN BN DUI.png113th Engineer Battalion
• File:150FARegtDUI.jpg2nd Battalion, 150th Field Artillery Regiment
• File:738 BSC Signal.PNG738th Signal Company

81st Troop Command ("War Eagles")

• A Company, 2-20th Special Forces Group
• 19th CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package Battalion
• 81st Military Police Battalion
• 127th Cyber Protection Battalion
• 53rd Civil Support Team
• 120th Public Affairs Detachment
• 135th Chaplain Detachment
• 138th Military History Detachment
• 1938th Acquisition Team
• 1976th Acquisition Team

138th Regiment - Combat Arms ("Seek and Destroy")

• Headquarters, 138th Regiment (Combat Arms) Indiana Regional Training Institute

History

Revolutionary War

The Indiana Army National Guard's roots began in pre-Revolutionary North America. Around the time of the Beaver Wars, French colonists established trading posts and villages, forming militias for their defense. When the American Revolutionary War began, many militias in modern-day Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky declared for the United States against the British. To express his support, militia Captain François Riday Busseron commissioned the first American flag of Indiana in 1778. Militias in southern-Indiana, aided by George Rogers Clark and Piankeshaw natives, captured Fort Sackville in February 1779, an important British fort in the Ohio River Valley.

Indiana Territory

After the American victory in the Revolutionary War, on 25 July 1788 Governor Arthur St. Clair, the first governor of the newly purchased Northwest Territory, published a law organizing the territory's militias into an official armed force of the United States. The Northwest Territory proved difficult to subdue, however, as the local Miami and Shawnee tribes resisted the United States. This resistance escalated to begin the Northwest Indian War, as many American generals, still fresh from their victory over the British, took it upon themselves to defeat any resistance to the rapidly expanding United States. The War began horribly for the United States, and in quick succession the United States suffered two horrendous defeats in the 1790 Harmar campaign and the 1791 St. Clair's defeat - still to this day the most decisive defeat in the history of the American military.

After the failures of Harmar and St. Clair, General Anthony Wayne reorganized and expanded the Continental Army, calling his force the Legion of the United States. Wayne marched his army into the Northwest Territory, where he broke America's string of bad luck with his decisive victory at the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. After his victory, he marched into Indiana and founded Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Northwest Territory was broken up upon Ohio's admittance into the Union, and was renamed the Indiana Territory in 1800. The Indiana Army National Guard traces its unbroken history to 1801, when Indiana's first governor, William Henry Harrison, formed the Indiana Legion to defend settlers against the aggressive actions of the Native American tribes in the territory. Years later, in 1807, Harrison founded the Indiana Rangers, modeling them after General Wayne's mounted troops used at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. The Indiana Legion was charged with the defense of all settlements in the Territory, while the Rangers were tasked with safeguarding the Buffalo Trace, the main transportation route between Louisville, Kentucky and Vincennes.

This era in Indiana history was particularly hazardous, as the Shawnee leader Tecumseh sought to unify the tribes of the Indiana Territory and drive the Americans out. Tensions climaxed when Harrison led the Indiana Legion, 1000 strong, to attack Tecumseh's capital of Prophetstown. Outside of Prophetstown, the Legion was ambushed early in the morning of November 7, 1811. The Legion and Rangers held their ground for two hours, defeating the ambush and burning Prophetstown to the ground. Over the next two years, simultaneously with the War of 1812, Harrison and the Indiana Legion continued to battle against Tecumeh's confederacy, chasing him into Canada and taking part in Tecumseh's final defeat at the 1813 Battle of the Thames. The Legion continued to fight the British in Canada until the cessation of the war in 1815.

Tragically, between the movement of Indiana's capital from Vincennes to Corydon, Indiana, and then again to Indianapolis, most documents regarding the Indiana Legion have been lost. In one unfortunate incident, a janitor sold a wagon load of official Legion papers as "waste paper."

Mexican-American War

Indiana units were first officially called to federal service in 1846, taking part in the Mexican–American War. General Joseph Lane's Indiana Brigade played a critical role on American army's left flank in the Battle of Buena Vista, a critical battle that routed the Mexican Army and open the way for Mexico's rapid occupation.

American Civil War

Indiana answered Abraham Lincoln's call to federal service against the Confederacy. Indiana's governor, Oliver P. Morton, is famously remembered as one of Lincoln's "war governors," and stalwartly pledged Indiana's support for the Union. Indiana committed over 200,000 soldiers throughout the war, with Indiana units serving in some of the most famous units of the Union Army, including the Iron Brigade, the Lightning Brigade, and Colonel Eli Lilly's 18th Indiana Battery of Light Artillery. Indiana units on average suffered approximately 35% casualties throughout the war. With so many Hoosiers serving in the Union Army, the Indiana Legion was reactivated to guard the home front, taking part in the Battle of Corydon. After the war, the Indiana Legion was renamed the Indiana National Guard in 1895.

Twentieth century

The Indiana National Guard took part in its first overseas operations in the Spanish–American War, taking part in the occupation of the Philippines. After the war, the Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system, making state forces easier to federalize and improving the quality of professionalism and training. Fort Benjamin Harrison was established north of Indianapolis in 1906 as both a Regular Army post and the headquarters of the Indiana Army National Guard. In 1916, the Indiana guard was mobilized to patrol the Mexican border as part of the Mexican Border War.

By January 1917, all Indiana National Guard (abbreviated I.N.G. pre-WWI) units, with the exception of the 2nd Indiana Infantry had just returned from the Mexican border, and the Adjutant General of Indiana, Harry B. Smith, was in the process of reorganizing the 1st and 3rd Indiana Infantry Regiments. Almost every Indiana infantry and artillery regiments were undergoing training at Fort Benjamin Harrison when the United States joined World War I on the side of the Allies. . The 1st Indiana Artillery Regiment was reclassified the 150th Field Artillery Regiment and attached to the 42nd Infantry Division, departing for Europe before any other Indiana unit. Meanwhile, the rest of the Indiana Army National Guard was transported to Camp Shelby, Mississippi to form the new 38th Infantry Division. During World War I, the 150th Field Artillery saw extensive combat during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, while the 38th Infantry Division was broken up to either provide reinforcements to other American units in combat, or provide medical and engineering support behind friendly lines.

After World War I, amendments were made to the National Defense Act of 1916 which codified the National Guard as a permanent part of the United States Army. The final amendment in 1921 allowed the National Guard to "preserve the names, numbers and other designations, flags and records of the division that served in the World War."

When America joined World War II, the Indiana Army National Guard was once again federalized. Camp Atterbury was established in 1942, training hundreds of thousands of Soldiers until the war's conclusion. The 38th Infantry Division was activated at Camp Shelby, MS, and would serve in the Pacific from 1944-1945, earning the nickname "Avengers of Bataan."

After World War II, Indiana Army National Guard units served in the Korean War, and famously had the only National Guard combat arms unit that saw combat during the Vietnam War - Company D (Ranger), 151st Infantry Regiment, gaining the moniker "The Indiana Rangers." Company D is recognized as the spiritual successors to the Indiana Rangers established prior to Indiana's statehood. During their one-year deployment to Vietnam, "Delta Company" was awarded 510 medals for valor and service, making it one of the most decorated units in United States Army history.

With the post-Vietnam revitalization of the National Guard, the Indiana Army National Guard was federally activated in much larger numbers in the last years of the 20th century. Taking on their full duty as a dual-purpose force, the Indiana National Guard served in response to hurricanes, natural disasters, and were activated to serve in the 1991 Gulf War and the U.S. intervention during the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War.

Twenty-first century

Following the September 11 attacks, the Indiana Army National Guard was further expanded and had a significant part in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Spartan Shield. Indiana Guard units were present during the 2004 elections in Afghanistan and the 2005 elections in Iraq. As of 2020, 133 Indiana Guardsmen had been killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of 2022, Indiana Army National Guard units are present in Kuwait and Kosovo.

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