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The former National Guard Armory of Batesville, Arkansas, is located at 380 South Ninth Street. Built in 1936, it is a large and imposing sandstone structure with Gothic Revival and Art Deco features. It was designed by Peter Blaauw, a Dutch architect from Sulphur Rock, and built with funding from the Works Progress Administration.
Batesville is the county seat and largest city of Independence County, Arkansas, United States, [3] 80 miles (183 km) northeast of Little Rock, the state capital. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city was 10,268. [4] The city serves as a regional manufacturing and distribution hub for the Ozark Mountain region and Northeast ...
The Guard has responded to numerous tornadoes, floods and fires, in addition to being called upon to provide security and quell violence in times of civil disturbance. The Guard has also provided support to neighboring states, most notably Louisiana during Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike. Arkansas National Guard members killed in action
The Arkansas National Guard ( ARNG ), commonly known as the Arkansas Guard, is a component of the Government of Arkansas and the National Guard of the United States. It is composed of Army and Air National Guard units. The adjutant general 's office is located at Camp Robinson MTC, North Little Rock .
The 155th ABCT conduct slingload training as part of phase 2 of Air Assault School at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team is a brigade combat team of the Mississippi Army National Guard . The brigade was formed in 1973 as the separate 155th Armored Brigade from the 1st Brigade, 30th Armored Division during a National ...
Re-organization following WWI. The effort to rapidly reorganize the Arkansas National Guard following World War I was a complicated task for two reasons, first the fact that the units mobilized for the war had effectively been disbanded at the end of the war and second because Federal Authorities were focused on a massive expansion of the National Guard.
The 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ( 39th IBCT ), also officially known as The Arkansas Brigade, [1] is an infantry brigade combat team of the Army National Guard composed of personnel from the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The unit is the largest Army National Guard command in Arkansas and is headquartered at the Camp ...
The history of the Arkansas State Guard and the Spanish–American War begins with the reorganization of the state militia following the end of Reconstruction. In 1879 the Arkansas Legislature had abolished the office of Adjutant General in retaliation for the use of the state militia to interfere in local political matters during reconstruction.