Summary history of The 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) A Norwegian-American Unit formed during WWII. Army planners knew that they needed soldiers who could blend in with the local Norwegians. It was determined that the Army should recruit native speakers of Norwegian and Americans of Norwegian descent for a special unit. On July 10, 1942, the 99th Infantry Battalion was activated. Many of the men who volunteered for the unit came from Minnesota and the Dakotas.

The job of the 44th Medical Brigade, now the 44th Medical Command, is to organize, train, deploy, command, and control their subordinate medical units to provide corps-level combat medical, and community health support, across all levels of conflict and in a peacetime garrison environment. The summary history of the 44th Medical Brigade goes into detail about the history of this life-saving group of soldiers.