On this day 79 years ago, on March 19, 1946 (February 16, 1946 lunar calendar), the US Military Advisory Group in China was established. The "US Military Advisory Group" trains the Kuomintang troops with American equipment. On March 19, 1946, the US Military Advisory Group in China was officially established in Nanjing. After the surrender of Japan, there were already US military advisers in the Kuomintang military institutions. During Marshall's "mediation" in China, Chiang Kai-shek asked the United States to establish a military advisory group. The first was Lieutenant General Rooks. It consisted of 1,000 US generals and officers, 750 in the army and 250 in the navy. Headquartered in Nanjing, with offices in Shanghai. The advisory group directly controls the headquarters of the National Government's land, sea and air forces, and dispatches personnel to the Ministry of Defense. The regiment plans to engage in the following tasks: make "suggestions" to the chairperson, defense minister, and chief of staff in the form of a memorandum; convey and implement the intentions of the United States by the Sino-US joint meeting; implement various decisions of the United States through inspection and supervision; train the Kuomintang army in imitation of the US military system equipment; collect Chinese military intelligence in the name of aerial surveying.