User:Aleutian06

Dedication
This compilation of Wikipedia Articles is dedicated to the Fallen Heroes of the 39th Brigade Combat Team who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their unit, state and nation. Bowie Team!

Current Projects
I am currently working on the following articles:
 * User:Aleutian06/Militia in Colonial Arkansas


 * User:Aleutian06/Siege of Fayettville
 * User:Aleutian06/List of Confederate military camps in Arkansas
 * User:Aleutian06/13th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

Split of Arkansas Army National Guard
I helped split the larger article Arkansas Army National Guard into smaller articles. I am now working back through the articles in an attempt to get them all up to "B" status.


 * Template:Arkansas National Guard Series
 * Arkansas National Guard
 * Arkansas Territorial Militia✅
 * Arkansas Militia and the War with Mexico ✅
 * Arkansas Militia in the Civil War ✅
 * Arkansas Militia in Reconstruction✅
 * Arkansas State Guard and the Spanish-American War
 * Arkansas Air National Guard
 * Arkansas National Guard and the Intergration of Central High School ✅
 * Arkansas National Guard during World War I✅
 * Arkansas National Guard and World War II ✅
 * Arkansas Army National Guard and the Cold War ✅
 * Arkansas Army National Guard and the Global War on Terrorism
 * Arkansas Army National Guard and the Korean War
 * Arkansas Army National Guard in Operation Desert Storm
 * The Militia Clause, United States Constitution

Create a Book
One great feature of Wikipedia is the Create a Book function. A user can select several articles and upload them to a publisher who will return a very nicely bound soft cover books with the selected articles, a table of contents and an index at the end. The user can select a title and photo or artwork the front cover. The book takes approximately 15 days to arrive at your home.

List of Books assembled by this user: [| User:Aleutian06/Books/]

User:Aleutian06/Dedication and Foreword from Damon Cluck, editor

Book:Arkansas Confederates

Book:History of the 39th Infantry Division

Book:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units

Book:Arkansas Confederate Artillery Units

Book:Arkansas Confederate Cavalry Units

Book:Arkansas Civil War Union units

Book:Arkansas National Guard

Book:Church of Christ

User:Aleutian06/List of Arkansas Artillery Batteries

A Note on the Histories of Military Units
Every military unit in the United States Army has a history, which reads like a family tree for that particular unit. The unit's "Birth Certificate" is it's Lineage and Honors certificate which details the history of the various organizations from which the current unit is said to descend. These histories can often read like the marriage history of an extremely dysfunctional family, with various units constantly being organized, reorganize, redesignated, consolidated, constituted and reconstituted. For National Guard Units these histories can become even more confusing because according to Army Regulation 870–5, the history of a National Guard unit is tied to the parent or preceding unit and to the unit's geographic station, or hometown. Thus the local National Guard unit may currently be an Artillery Battalion, but its Lineage and Honor's Certificate may refer to the unit being reorganized from an Infantry unit in the past, because that was the type of unit assigned to that hometown at some point in the past.

These Lineage and Honors certificates also track the military campaigns, engagements, and honors, or awards which the unit has won in various wars. The United States Army Center of Military History currently tracks over 179 separate campaigns and engagements for which a unit may be entitle to credit. These campaigns and engagements stretch all the way back to the earliest days of the American Revolution up through the current Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

It is from these Lineage and Honors certificates that military units draw their histories and traditions. It can be said that these histories are even more important to National Guard units because of their close ties to the local community. It is not uncommon to visit the local National Guard Armory and find it hosting a reunion of veterans from the local Guard Unit, or one of it's parent organizations, from World War II, Korea, Operation Desert Storm or some other operation or time period. The current military organizations draw on the good will and support of these former members for assistance in current operations, whether its assistance with sponsoring a welcome home ceremony for the newest veterans returning form the most recent deployment, or lobbying for improved equipment and training for the units.

So the next time you are in the local Anytown National Guard Armory and you see a rather decrepit looking certificate detailing the exploits for the local Guard unit in some training exercise or competition from fifty years ago, and you wonder why a modern organization would be interested in preserving such an outdated document, know that there is probably some veteran of that unit, or one of it's parent organizations, who regularly visits the local armory, may be not as often as he used to, but as often as time and health will allow, to ensure that the history of his organization is being preserved.

It is for this reason that it is so important that new members of current military units thoroughly indoctrinated on the history and traditions of their organization, its campaigns, and it's stations. Some day that visiting veteran may be you or me.

On Going Projects

 * User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Confederate Infantry Unit Histories
 * User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Regiment of Mounted Volunteers
 * User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Confederate Cavalry Unit Histories
 * User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Confederate Artillery Unit Histories
 * User:Aleutian06/Arkansas Union Civil War Unit Histories
 * User:Aleutian06/Volunteer Companies
 * User:Aleutian06/Volunteer Companies organized in the Militia