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Hey BANDIDO, meet the THUNDERING THIRD! (Does "MECH" mean "tanker?" Sorry, I'm stupid!)
The logo above was the "unofficial" Company "logo" (and the name Bandido Charlie was the unofficial name) of Company, C, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry (MECH), 1st US Army Infantry Division. Bandido Charlie has recently received that name "Bandido Charlie" as its official name from the Dept of the Army and is currently serving in Irag. Before it was moved to the 1st US Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam, it was Company C, 1st Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th US Army Divison, the company in which retitered GEN Tommy Franks served as an Artillery Forward Observer until he was severally wounded.
"MECH" = mechanized which means using armored personnel carriers to transport troops to the battlefield, but in the jungles of Vietnam, a lot of the operations reverted to "leg" infantry or, as it was known, "humpin' the jungle".
BTW, in the Army, "Armored" means "Tanker"!
16th Infantry Regimental Crest
Last edited on Sat Nov 5th, 2005 01:01 pm by KenC