Depictions in Media
- James Jones' 1962 novel The Thin Red Line focuses on a company of soldiers who are in the 25th Infantry Division fighting on Guadalcanal in 1942–43.
- In Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam War film Platoon, the eponymous (fictional) military unit is depicted by its shoulder patches as being part of the 25th Infantry Division.
- The stories in The Nam (a Marvel Comics series about the War in Vietnam) are about the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry, a part of the 25th Infantry Division.
- Rapper/actor Ice-T was once in the 25th Infantry Division, as was Oliver Stone during the Vietnam War.
- Track Palin, the oldest son of former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, served in Iraq for a year as a member of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division.
- The film Tropic Thunder takes its title from the unit's nickname as a possible homage to Platoon.
- Johnny Rico based his book, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green: A Year in the Desert with Team America, on his experience with The 25th Infantry Division in Afghanistan.
- American officers in the Allied campaign's final mission briefing of Command & Conquer: Red Alert have the 25th's patch.
- In the FX TV series Sons of Anarchy John Teller, the long dead father of protagonist Jax Teller, and one of the founders of the Sons of Anarchy motorcycle club, is said to have served in the 25th Infantry in the Vietnam War along with fellow founder Piney Winston.
- In the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, the character of Al Stephenson (Frederic March) has just been discharged from service with the 25th Infantry Division; his shoulder patch clearly identifies the division.
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