The 34th Infantry Division is an infantry division of the US Army which was active from 1917 to 1919, 1924 to 1963, and from 1991 to the present. Nicknamed the "Red Bull Division", the division consisted of units from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, and the division arrived in France in October 1918 at the end of World War I; the division arrived too late to fight at the front. The division went on to serve in North Africa and Italy during World War II, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War, being deactivated and reactivated several times. By 2011, the division consisted of 6,500 National Guardsmen from Minnesota, 2,900 from Iowa, and 300 from Nebraska.