On this day in 1991, #IronSoldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment "Bandits", 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division were preparing to engage Iraqi Forces during Operation Desert Storm. Check out this vintage ABC News clip with Sam Donaldson when he embedded with the unit on Feb. 21, 1991. These Soldiers share some candid thoughts just days before ground operations began against Iraqi Forces. The company commander at that time was then Capt. Dana J. H. Pittard. 20 years later, Pi

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1944, Paris was liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division after four years of Nazi occupation. The 2nd Armored Division advanced on the city from the west and the 4th Infantry Division from the south. Hitler ordered Paris defended to the last man and demanded that the city not fall into Allied hands except as “a field of ruins.” General Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison, dutifully began laying explosives under Pa

Soldiers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division return to Fort Bliss June 10, 2018, wrapping up a 9-month deployment to Kuwait. | 1st Armored Division

Spc. Arturo Arias, an M1 armor crewman gunner assigned to 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, explains the joint training occurring between his unit and the Polish Armed Forces during their gunnery tables as part of the preparation before executing a culminating live-fire exercise. #IronSoldiers #StrongerTogether #IIIArmoredCorps #FORSCOM #USArmy #WeAreNATO | 1st Armored Division

To all our Veterans, Happy Veterans day from the 1st Armored Division. Your sacrifice and dedication truly embodies what it means to be an American. 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss 1st Armored Division Artillery 1st Armored Division, Division Sustainment Brigade U.S. Army Fort Bliss | 1st Armored Division