The U.S. Army is investigating how a National Guard unit headquartered in Birmingham posted a photo on social media showing a service member with a helmet patch linked to symbols used by troops ...

until it adopted a divisional patch in 2007. Another unit, the 167th Infantry Regiment of the Alabama National Guard, began as a militia group in the 1830s and was organized as 4th Alabama ...

Alabama said it sent ... Confederate references, the National Guard will keep its famed 29th Infantry Division's patch, a yin-yang of blue and gray, to symbolize units who fought on both sides ...