Heritage
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The division's heritage today is continued by the 99th Regional Support Command of the United States Army Reserve, headquartered at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Note: According to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, regional support commands (RSCs), such as the 99th, do not perpetuate the lineage and honors of infantry divisions. RSCs are allowed to wear the shoulder patch and the numerical designation of the divisions, but they are not entitled to the divisional lineage and honors. This is because RSCs are TDA (Table of Distribution & Allowances) units and divisions are TOE (Table of Organization & Equipment) units, and TDA units cannot perpetuate the lineages and honors of TOE units.
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Famous quotes containing the word heritage:
“Flowers ... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children—honoured as the jewellery of God only by them—when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.”
—Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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—Calvin Trillin (20th century)