21 April 2024 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

[browningautorifle]

"Lieutenant Watt instructs a class in the mechanism of the M1 rifle. The 442nd combat team at Camp Shelby"

I thought they must be 442nd.

[Sapper740]

I stopped by Camp Shelby once when I and a couple of my Engineer buddies had a weekend off from a joint training exercise with an American Red Horse unit in Gulfport MS. A lot of Texas Guardsmen have passed through Camp Shelby on their way to Iraq of Afghanistan.