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Jesse B. "Chico" Quiroz
Chico joined the Army and served with the 508th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (ARCT), part of the 82nd Airborne Division. He was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia after completion of Jump Training. When the Korean War started, the 508th was not bound for Korea but would spend the war stationed stateside at Fort Benning and Fort Bragg as well as, Japan. Chico wanted to join the fight in Korea. He transferred to the 40th Infantry Division and was shipped to the combat zone in Korea. In Korea Jesse would earn his Combat Infantry Badge (1952). T
he 40th was organized at Camp Kearney, near San Diego, California, 16 September 1917, originally designated as the 19th Division. It was composed of National Guard units from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. After seeing service in World War I as a depot division, it was redesigned the Guard division for California and Utah, before seeing service in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Later the division served Korea and some of its units were designated for Vietnam. The division was redesigned the Guard unit for California alone, and it continues to serve domestically as such, mostly in homeland security operations.
