The same ranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards.

Tennessee personnel made up the 117th Infantry Regiment, the 114th and 115th Field Artillery, and the 114th Machine Gun Battalion.

The Guard, which at one point fired two machine guns indiscriminately into the neighborhood, eventually dispersed the rioters.

[11][12][13] When the 30th Infantry Division reorganized on 11 September 1947 it was composed of Guard units from North Carolina and Tennessee.

A few days prior to G-Day, Tennessee's 212th Engineer Company, attached to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), broke through the border berm into enemy territory, building a six-lane road.