ASSIGNMENTS
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry
- Organized 6 July 1861 at Fort Preble, Maine
- Reorganized and redesignated 13 December 1866 as the 17th Infantry
- Consolidated 1 June 1869 with the 44th Infantry, Veteran Reserve Corps (constituted 21 September 1866),
and consolidated unit designated as the 17th Infantry
- Assigned 5 July 1918 to the 11th Division
- (2d and 3d Battalions inactivated 1 October 1921 at Fort McIntosh, Texas; activated 24 June 1922 at Fort Crook, Nebraska)
- Relieved 24 March 1923 from assignment to the 11th Division and assigned to the 7th Division
- Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 6th Division
- (2d Battalion inactivated 31 October 1929 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa)
- Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division (later redesignated as the 7th Infantry Division)
- (2d Battalion activated 1 July 1940 at Camp Ord, California)
- Relieved 1 July 1957 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
- Withdrawn 16 November 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
Civil War (as a part of 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps)
Peninsula
Manassas
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Cold Harbor
Petersburg
Virginia 1862
Virginia 1863
Indian Wars
Little Big Horn
Pine Ridge
North Dakota 1872
War with Spain (as a part of 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps)
Santiago
Philippine Insurrection (as a part of 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps)
Manila
Malolos
San Isidro
Tarlac
Mindanao
Luzon 1899
Luzon 1900
Mexican Expedition
Mexico 1916-1917
World War II (as a part of 7th Infantry Division, was assigned to 24th Corps and 11th Airborne Division)
Aleutian Islands (with arrowhead)
Eastern Mandates (with arrowhead)
Leyte Ryukyus (with arrowhead)
Korean War (as a part of 7th Infantry Division)
UN Defensive
UN Offensive
CCF Intervention
First UN Counteroffensive
CCF Spring Offensive
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
Second Korean Winter
Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
Third Korean Winter
Korea, Summer 1953
Vietnam (as Company D, 17th US Infantry, was assigned to US Army Support Command)
Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Consolidation I
Consolidation II
Cease-Fire
Armed Forces Expeditions
Panama (with arrowhead)
DECORATIONS
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered LEYTE
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered INCHON
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1945-1948; 1953-1957
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