This is very interesting.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/362199400810572/permalink/935418353488671/

War Department mobilizes "T-Patchers"

July 18th, 1917
On this day in 1917, the United States War Department issued orders mobilizing the Thirty-sixth Infantry Division (known as the "Texas Division" or the "T-Patchers") at Camp Bowie in Tarrant County. The division, initially composed mostly of Texas National Guard troops, fought in World War I and again in World War II. During the latter conflict, one unit of the division, which became known as the "lost battalion," was captured at the fall of Java. The men of the battalion spent the war in Japanese prison camps, and many died building the Burma Railroad. When the War Department made national guard units available to the governors of the states in 1946, the Thirty-sixth Division was reactivated. The Thirty-sixth was called to active duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but was eliminated by January 1968. In 1946 veterans of the unit founded the Thirty-sixth Division Association.
Article from the TSHA...

Actually the 36th had two lost battalions, 1st Bn 141st IN was surrounded in the Vosges Mountains in France, they were relieved by the 442nd Infantry Regiment. The famous Nisei regiment. The Pacific lost Bn was the 2nd Bn 131st Field Artillery.

Texas Army National Guard is now the T patchers again. Has been for awhile now. I wore that patch.

It also fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A bit of coincidence it was re-designated from the 49th Armored Div on this day 2004!