U.S. Army Slogans Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1st Infantry Division

The 1st Infantry division patch is a green pentagon with a big red one in the middle.

Answer: 82nd Airborne Division

The initials AA are inprinted on the 82nd's shoulder patch, below the words "Airborne". The 82nd made drops at Normany, Sicily, and Salerno in World War II.

Answer: 1st Cavalry Division

The 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division fought the first major battle of the Vietnam War- Ia Drang. The 1st Cavalry is (August 2004) now the largest division in the US Army. "Anime et Fide" means "courageous and faithful".

Answer: 2nd Armored Division

The 2nd Armored Division's patch has the number "two" on the top part of the patch (it's a triangle) and the words "Hell on Wheels" on the bottom part. All of the other armored divisions have the same patch with a different number on top, but they do not bear the same slogan.

Answer: Sua Sponte

Sua Sponte which is Latin for "Of Their Own Accord". The Rangers are an elite group that took part in the attempted capture of the Somali warlord General Aidid in Operation Restore Hope. He was not captured during that raid, or any raid, he was killed in 1996.

The day after, General Garrison who led the raid in 1993 retired. 1st and 2nd Ranger Battalions took part in the Normandy landings in 1944.

Answer: 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

The 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions dropped behind enemy lines hours before the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Answer: 3rd Infantry Regiment

Some of the 3rd Infantry Regiment took part in the Normandy Raid.

Answer: 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment

The 160th SOAR piloted UH-60 Black Hawks along with other helicopters such as the OH-6 Littlebird in Operation Restore Hope; Somalia.

Answer: Special Forces

De Opresso Liber is latin, and the motto of US Army Special Forces, or Green Berets, the Army's elite.

Answer: True

To Free the Oppressed is the Special Forces motto in English, it could also be translated as Liberation from Oppression.