Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 October 2015
20th Infantry Regiment
(Syke's Regulars)
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 2d Battalion, 11th Infantry
- Organized 6 June 1862 at Fort Independence, Massachusetts
- Reorganized and redesignated 6 December 1866 as the 20th Infantry
- Assigned 9 July 1918 to the 10th Division
- Relieved 14 February 1919 from assignment to the 10th Division
- Assigned 18 September 1920 to the 2d Division
- Relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 2d Division and assigned to the 6th Division (later redesignated as the 6th Infantry Division)
- Inactivated 10 January 1949 at Kwangju, Korea
- Activated 4 October 1950 at Fort Ord, California
- Relieved 3 April 1956 from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division
- Reorganized 15 November 1957 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
- Withdrawn 16 August 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 20th 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
- War with Spain
- Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- Manila
- Luzon 1901
- World War II
- New Guinea
- Luzon (with arrowhead)
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- Consolidation I
- Consolidation II
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Sovereignty
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MAFFIN BAY
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered CABARUAN HILLS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MUNOZ
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAQUBAH, IRAQ
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1972
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003-2004
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1999-2000
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2002-2003
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History
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