Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 June 2014
17th Infantry Regiment
- 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- Withdrawn 16 November 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 17th Infantry Regiment
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Civil War
- 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
- Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- Manila
- Malolos
- San Isidro
- Tarlac
- Mindanao
- Luzon 1899
- Luzon 1900
- Mexican Expedition
- Mexico 1916-1917
- World War II
- Aleutian Islands
- (with arrowhead)
- Eastern Mandates
- (with arrowhead)
- Leyte
- Ryukyus (with arrowhead)
- Korean War
- 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
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- Consolidation I
- Consolidation II
- Cease-Fire
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Panama (with arrowhead)
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered LEYTE
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE AND BAGHDAD
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2012-2013
- 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
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History