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Major General James Ring, adjutant general of the Virginia Army National Guard, presided over the 2024 Military Through the Ages pass-in-review ceremony. Ring salutes The Hampton Roads Wartime Women, who won the Re-enactor's Choice for Best Unit Overall for their depiction of WACS operating in France in the summer of 1944, a month after the D-Day landing. Although women had served in limited capacities during previous conflicts, WWII saw the first truly significant steps toward women's equality in the US Armed Forces with the creation of the WACS, WAVES, SPARS and WASPS. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation photo.
2024 Military Through the Ages Best Unit Impressions
| RECOGNITION | UNIT NAME |
|---|---|
| Best Overall | |
| Visitor's Choice for Best Unit Overall | MACV Recondo School, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, “Nha Trang, RVN,” 1968 |
| Re-enactor's Choice for Best Unit Overall | Hampton Roads Wartime Women: A Living History Company, 1944 |
| Cold Steel Category | |
| 1st Place | Scara Karoli (Charlemagne's Army), 804 |
| 2nd Place |
La Belle Compagnie, 1416 |
| 3rd Place | The Greek Phalanx, 500 B.C.E. |
| Black Powder Category | |
| 1st Place | American Forces, Hampton Roads War of 1812, June 1813 |
| 2nd Place | No. 3 Coy, 42nd Royal Highland Reg’t, June 1813 |
| 3rd Place | Crewe of the Retribution, 1702 |
| Honorable Mention | 2nd Corps. Field Hospital, CSA, 1863-1864 |
| Modern Category | |
| 1st Place | MACV Recondo School, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, “Nha Trang, RVN,” 1968 |
| 2nd Place | XV Brigada Internacional, 1937 |
| 3rd Place | 39th Tomsk Infantry Regiment, 1917 |
| Honorable Mention | Brygada Smierci, 5th Squadron, 5th Wilno Brigade, Polish Cursed Soldiers, 1946 |
The MAC-V Recondo School, received the 2024 Military Through the Ages Visitor’s Choice Award and 1st place for Best Unit Impression in the Modern Category for its representation of the MAC-V Recondo School - 5th Special Forces Group, Nha Trang, Republic of Vietnam, 1968. This long-range reconnaissance training school trained troops from every free world nation fighting in Vietnam. Its graduates conducted patrols and sensitive missions deep in denied enemy territory. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation photo.