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Demonstration Regiment and trainers for the Infantry School. During the time between the World Wars, the 29th Infantry Regiment trained infantry soldiers and leaders, demonstrated tactics and tested innovations in Infantry warfare at
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seven 14.5-mm field artillery trainers M31. The heavy platoon had the bruisers of the battery: two 155-mm howitzers (SP) M109, two 8-inch howitzers (SP) M110 and two 175-mm guns (SP) M107. The support section, in addition to providing ammunition in the field, was also equipped with a 105-mm howitzer M101A1 and a 155-mm howitzer (T) M114A1.
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Artillery, was activated on 21 March 1973 and attached to the 1st Battalion, 29th Infantry. It was located at Kelly Hill on Fort Moore. Battery C provided Field Artillery support to the Infantry School. The battery was equipped with six 105-mm howitzers M101A1, and
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Infantry School. In addition, it was given the mission of actually building the post. For eight years the men of the 29th lived in tents while they built the Cuartel Barracks, Gowdy Field, and Doughboy
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Battalion and 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment, remain flagged as such, and continue to provide support the
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