He talks about his great-uncle's service in World War II, as a member of the infantry division that first liberated a Nazi concentration camp.
After rescuing the woman, Carter's unit -- the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division -- took control of the bridge and the whole town, Hindiya, within a matter of hours.
The Army's 1st Cavalry Division and elements of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 13th Corps Support Command, are based at Fort Hood.
Fort Hood, with about 40, 000 troops, is home to the Army's 1st Cavalry Division and elements of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 13th Corps Support Command.
Replacing the 3rd Infantry Division will be soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in a six-month long rotation.
The Baghdad infantry division reportedly has been destroyed and the Medina division reduced.
West, 42, will be assigned to the rear detachment of the 4th Infantry Division awaiting the processing of his retirement request, the statement said.
Ray Odierno of the 4th Infantry Division said the raid took place Thursday at a house south of Tikrit, the deposed Iraqi president's hometown.
His historic career includes leading the 3rd Infantry Division in the opening months of the Iraq war where he earned a Silver Star for valor.
About 9, 000 soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division arrived in the Central Command region in two groups -- in September, 2002, and this January.
If there were heavy forces, such as the 4th Infantry Division, on the ground in the north and advancing south towards Tikrit and Baghdad, Iraqi resistance would be divided, enabling allied units moving up from the south to do so more quickly.
Jeffery Hammond, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, stood facing the angry crowd.
Instead, U.S. commanders say it is hard to impose order in Iraq with just 150, 000 troops, and the return home of the 3rd Infantry Division -- one of the units that led the assault on Baghdad -- has been delayed indefinitely.
Much of the Third Infantry Division, which did a lot of the fighting, still doesn't know when it can go home.
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Thirty Stryker MEVs have recently been fielded to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division in preparation for their upcoming deployment to Iraq, and the Army also funded the acquisition of another 306 Stryker MEVs in the 2008 supplemental budget bill.
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The U.S. forces include the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the Marine Corps' 1st Division.
It is Major General Abrams, commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division and Regional Command-South.
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John Digiambatista of the 4th Infantry Division said in a news release, referring to Tuesday's attack.
But the 7th Infantry Division pushed on -- probing enemy lines, fighting bunker by bunker, hill by hill.
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That is one of the bases where the 4th Infantry Division is staying.
CNN's Holmes said the convoy was made up of elements of the Army V Corps, including the 4th Infantry Division.
Army Private First Class Kenneth Zeigler of the 3rd Infantry Division was killed in southeast Baghdad by a roadside bomb last week.
In 2003, Ted Koppel , then the anchor of Nightline from ABC News, embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division in Kuwait.
In another U.S. troop movement, the first elements of the 4th Infantry Division are expected to begin moving from Kuwait into Iraq within a few days.
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He was awarded two Purple Hearts, and promoted to Sergeant as many of the soldiers around him in the 9th Infantry Division were dying in vicious jungle warfare.
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John Charlton, 1st Brigade Commander with the 3rd Infantry Division.
After all, the World War II veteran didn't recall losing a dog tag after landing in Normandy with the 90th Infantry division on D-Day and fighting across Nazi-occupied France.
After various senior roles in Europe and the Pentagon, Gen Odierno was assigned to Fort Hood, Texas as the commanding general from 2001 to 2004 of the 4th Infantry Division.
The 4th Infantry Division, for instance, was going to be used to open up a second front from Turkey, but when the Turks prevaricated the troops remained on board their ships.
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