Arkansas National Guard
Worn from:
30 September 1968 - Current.

The Thirty-ninth Division was organized with troops from Arkansas,
Louisiana, and Mississippi at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana in August 1917.
It was reconstituted in May 1946 into the National Guard as the
Thirty-ninth Infantry Division; reorganized and re-designated in
December 1967 as the Thirty-ninth Infantry Brigade. The Bowie knife
refers to Arkansas, the Bowie State, home of the brigade. The Bowie knife,
a weapon used for close fighting and implying hand-to-hand combat, is also
indicative of the aggressive spirit of infantry. The lozenge or diamond
refers the diamond field in Arkansas, the only one in North America.

Campaigns:
World War I.