Story by Sgt. 1st Class W Michael Houk | First Army Division East | 10.23.2014
General John J. Pershing, First Army's first Commanding General, whose job was to mobilize, combine and train Army and National Guard units for deployment in WWI, said in 1917, "We no longer differentiate in an ultimate sense between Army, National Guard and Reserve Forces. Every energy is bent to the development of the Army of the United States. Our purpose is to think only of the American......
