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The 30th Armored Division was a Tennessee-based unit of the Army National Guard from the 1950s to the 1970s. ==Activation and service== In 1954 the 30th Infantry Division was reorganized, with units in North Carolina and South Carolina constituting the 30th Infantry Division, and units in Tennessee forming the nucleus of the new 30th Armored Division.〔John B. Wilson, Center of Military History, (Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades ), 1988, page 604〕 Though never federalized during wartime, the 30th Armored Division (called "Volunteers," for Tennessee's "Volunteer State" nickname) was activated for support to law enforcement, including responses to civil disturbances in Memphis and Nashville after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1968 the Mississippi Army National Guard's 108th Armored Cavalry Regiment was reorganized as 1st Brigade, 30th Armored Division. (The brigade was subsequently designated the 155th Separate Armored Brigade.)〔Global Security, (155th Armored Brigade (Separate) (Heavy) ), 2011〕 In addition, in 1968 units from the Florida Army National Guard and Alabama Army National Guard also became part of the 30th Armored Division.〔Jeffrey Lynn Pope, Leonid E. Kondratiuk, editors, (Armor-Cavalry Regiments: Army National Guard Lineage ), 1995, pages 41, 48〕 The 30th Armored Division was inactivated in December, 1973.〔Tennessee Secretary of State, (Blue Book ), 1980, page 312〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「30th Armored Division (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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