Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 August 2014
1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment
(The Old China Hands)
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry
- Organized 13 October 1861 at Newport Barracks, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company A, 15th Infantry
- Consolidated 12 August 1869 with Company A, 35th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 15th Infantry
- (15th Infantry assigned 17 July 1922 to the Philippine Division)
- Inactivated 1 April 1929 in the Philippines
- (1st Battalion, 15th Infantry, relieved 26 June 1931 from assignment to the Philippine Division; assigned 12 January 1940 to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division])
- Activated 23 May 1940 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 15th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 3d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry
- Relieved 16 March 2004 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment
- ANNEX
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company A, 3d Battalion, 17th Infantry
- Organized 29 October 1865 at Hart Island, New York
- Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1866 as Company A, 35th Infantry
- Consolidated 12 August 1869 with Company A, 15th Infantry, and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 15th Infantry
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Civil War
- *Shiloh
- *Murfreesborough
- *Chickamauga
- *Chattanooga
- *Atlanta
- *Alabama 1862
- *Kentucky 1862
- *Mississippi 1862
- *Tennessee 1862
- *Tennessee 1863
- *Georgia 1864
- Indian Wars
- Utes
- New Mexico 1880
- China Relief Expedition
- *Streamer without inscription
- Philippine Insurrection
- Luzon 1900
- Luzon 1901
- World War II
- *Algeria-French Morocco
- (with arrowhead)
- *Tunisia
- *Sicily (with arrowhead)
- *Naples-Foggia
- *Anzio (with arrowhead)
- *Rome-Arno
- *Southern France
- (with arrowhead)
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes-Alsace
- *Central Europe
- Korean War
- *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
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- *Iraqi Surge
- *Iraqi Sovereignty
- *New Dawn
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SAN FRATELLO
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MONTELIMAR
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOWANG-NI
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered HWACHON RESERVOIR
- *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered MADA’IN QADA, IRAQ
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- *Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered PANMUNJOM
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
- *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
- *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered IRON TRIANGLE
- *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
- *Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA
- Company D additionally entitled to:
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ MAR-DEC 2007
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History