The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army garrisoned at the Fort Irwin National Training Center in California. The regiment has served in the Philippine–American War, the Pancho Villa Expedition, World War II, the Vietnam War, Gulf War and Iraq War. The 11th ACR serves as the opposing force (OPFOR) for the Army and Marine task forces, and foreign military forces that train at Fort Irwin.
A Troop veterans are honored for their heroism in Vietnam, October 2009.
11th ACR trooper on duty in the Fulda Gap “OP ALPHA” during the Cold War.
Soldiers assigned to the 11th ACR form up along a wall as they prepare to clear a building known to house insurgents in an area of Al Iskandariyah, Iraq, on 5 March 2005.
Pancho Villa Expedition
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The Pancho Villa Expedition—now known officially in the United States as the Mexican Expedition, but originally referred to as the "Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army"—was a military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa from March 14, 1916, to February 7, 1917, during the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920.
Battle of Columbus. Ruins of Columbus, New Mexico, after being raided by Pancho Villa
Maj. Gen. John Pershing of the National Army
American soldiers cross the arid plains south of Columbus, New Mexico.