Task Force Bastard Holiday Parade at Camp Buehring, Kuwait 2021 The 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 194th Armor Regiment, Minnesota Army National Guard deployed in support of Operations Inherent Resolve, Allies Refuge, and Spartan Shield The unit name goes back to a 1942 poem from the fall of the Philippines during WW2: We’re the Battling Bastards of Bataan. No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam, No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces And nobody gives a damn.