what do they mean "know your branches history"?

[B.A.R.]

i'm leaving for army infantry and people keep telling me i should know some of my branches history... what part of army history should i know? no way any1 can know EVERYTHING about army history unless you were like a professor or something..

 

[Mr Puma]

Nobody said you had to have PhD. in Military Science. Just read up on it and get a general idea of what it's about and how it operates.

 

[Veishan]

Know the basic details about major battles, important figures, and turning points in Army history. You'll be instructed on some of it, but don't go in without being at least somewhat familiar with it.

 

[Well Duh!]

Like the year it was founded. When did the AAC come about, when did it split off into the AF ....major milestones....no big deal.

 

[Benji]

You want to know the high points, not the details of every dayum battle ever fought by the Army.
When was the Army begun? The basics of the Revolution, including how hopelessly outclassed we were to fight the British toe-to-to. That changed when Von Steuben was put in charge of training. Yorktown. Cornwallis.
You could pretty much skip the War of 1812, from the Army point of view, except to say that the most famous battle, New Orleans, was fought after a peace was signed. Andrew Jackson.
WW1- the AEF, Blackjack Pershing, the Argonne.
WW2 - as much as you can read. It's all fascinating.
Vietnam - what can you say? The failure of the draft? A failure of leadership? (DC)
And on up to the present.
Good luck. History is great reading, even better than fiction.

 

[newdaddy22]

your recruiter can probably give you a study guide or crash coarse since they are closely involved with the first steps of enlistment

 

[newdaddy22]

your recruiter can probably give you a study guide or crash coarse since they are closely involved with the first steps of enlistment