I served with D Co. 4th Battalion 18th Infantry Regiment
from 1988-1989
Coleman Kaserne
Gelnhausen, Germany
18TH INFANTRY (VANGUARDS) Lineage and Honors Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Organized 22 July 1861 at Camp Thomas, Ohio Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as the 18th Infantry Consolidated in April 1869 with the 25th Infantry (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 18th Infantry Assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expeditionary Division (later re-designated as the 1st Infantry Division) Relieved 15 February 1957 from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Withdrawn 16 June 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System ANNEX Constituted 3 May 1961 in the Regular Army as the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Organized 12 May 1862 at Camp Thomas, Ohio Reorganized and re-designated 21 September 1866 as the 25th Infantry Consolidated in April 1869 with the 18th Infantry and consolidated unit designated as the 18th Infantry CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT Civil War Murfreesborough Chickamaugua Chattanooga Atlanta Kentucky 1862 Mississippi 1862 Tennessee 1863 Georgia 1864 War with Spain Manilla Philippine Insurrection Iloilo Panay 1899 Panay 1900 World War I Montdidier-Noyon Aisne-Marne St. Mihiel Meuse-Argonne Lorraine 1917 Lorraine 1918 Picardy 1918 World War II Algeria_French Morrocco (with arrowhead) Tunisia Northern France Rhineland Ardennes-Alsace Vietnam Defense Counteroffensive Counteroffensive Phase II Counteroffensive Phase III Tet Counteroffensive Counteroffensive Phase IV Counteroffensive Phase V Counteroffensive Phase VI Tet 69 Counteroffensive Summer-Fall 1969 Winter_Spring 1970 Southwest Asia Defense of Saudi Arabia Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Cease-Fire DECORATIONS Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BEJA, TUNISIA Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NORMANDY Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered AACHEN, GERMANY Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BINH LONG PROVINCE *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered DI AN Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994 French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE-ARGONNE French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered KASSERINE French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY French Medaille Militaire, Fourragere Belgian Fourragere 1940 Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at MONS Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at EUPEN-MALMEDY
