US infantry jungle combat Vietnam

The Big Red One in Vietnam

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series From Cantigny to Baghdad: The Story of America’s First DivisionBy the mid-1960s, the 1st Infantry Division had spent nearly two decades preparing for a war that never came. Stationed in Europe during the Cold War, the division trained for large-scale armored conflict against a conventional enemy. Tanks, artillery, and coordinated maneuver warfare defined its doctrine. But the war it …