SERVICE UNIFORM – TECHNICAL SERGEANT 2ND GRADE – 36TH INFANTRY DIVISION<\/p>\n
The\u00a036th Infantry Division<\/strong>\u00a0(“Arrowhead”), also known as the “Panther Division”, “Lone Star Division”, “The Texas Army”, or the “T-patchers”, is an\u00a0infantry\u00a0division\u00a0of the\u00a0United States Army\u00a0and part of the\u00a0Texas Army National Guard. It was organized during\u00a0World War I\u00a0from units of the Texas and Oklahoma National Guard. \u00a0As an all-Texas unit, it was called for service for\u00a0World War II\u00a025 November 1940, was sent to the\u00a0European Theater of Operations\u00a0in April 1943, and returned to the Texas Army National Guard in December 1945.<\/p>\n A unit of the 36th Infantry, the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, was detached and sent to the Pacific just before the outbreak of war in late 1941. Its members were captured by the\u00a0Japanese\u00a0and forced into slave labor. Its fate was unknown for most of the rest of World War II, resulting in it being nicknamed the “Lost Battalion”.<\/p>\n The 36th Infantry Division was reconstituted in a May 2004 reorganization of the\u00a049th Armored Division.<\/p>\n The division has been active in search and rescue efforts following natural disasters, as well as supporting the rebuilding of affected areas.<\/p>\n U.S. Army basic service uniforms consisted of a winter service uniform of\u00a0olive drab\u00a0wool worn in temperate weather, and a summer service uniform of\u00a0khaki\u00a0cotton fabric worn in tropical weather. In addition to the service uniforms worn for ordinary duty and dress purposes there were a variety of fatigue and combat uniforms. Summer and winter service uniforms were worn during their respective seasons in the continental United States. During the war, the European Theater of Operations (Northwestern Europe) was considered a year-round temperate zone and the Pacific Theater of Operations a year-round tropical uniform zone. In the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. soldiers wore both seasonal uniforms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SERVICE UNIFORM – TECHNICAL SERGEANT 2ND GRADE – 36TH INFANTRY DIVISION\u00a0 Army basic service uniforms consisted of a winter service uniform of olive drab wool worn in temperate weather, and a summer service uniform of khaki cotton fabric worn in tropical weather.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1212,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[47],"product_tag":[102,103,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-1202","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-allied-ww2","7":"product_tag-36id","8":"product_tag-sergeant","9":"product_tag-uniform","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n