• The US Military Academy at West Point is honoring a famed Army unit with its specially-designed Army-Navy football uniforms.
• Army will face off against the Naval Academy Midshipmen on Saturday for the 119th iteration of the Army-Navy game.
• This year's uniform honors Army's First Division, the "Big Red One," which gained fame for helping assure an Allied victory during World War I.
• Some of the units within the division went on to storm Omaha Beach in Normandy during World War II.

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Army West Point Athletics has unveiled the uniforms for this year's Army-Navy football game. The team has collaborated with the academy's history department in recent years to create uniforms that honor individual units and their historic accomplishments. 

This year's uniform is a tribute to the Army's First Division, known as the "Big Red One," which was formed and sent to the western front during World War I. Its units fought in many decisive American victories, including the Battle of Cantigny and the Meuse-Argonne offensive, that ensured an Allied victory.

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