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Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 August 2015

338th Regiment

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 338th Infantry and assigned to the 85th Division
  • Organized 30 August 1917 at Camp Custer, Michigan
  • Demobilized 14 April 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 338th Infantry and assigned to the 85th Division (later redesignated as the 85th Infantry Division)
  • Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Lansing, Michigan
  • Ordered into active military service 15 May 1942 and reorganized at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
  • Disbanded 25 August 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
  • Reconstituted 6 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves as the 338th Infantry and assigned to the 85th Infantry Division
  • Activated 31 January 1947 with Headquarters at Peoria, Illinois
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • (Location of Headquarters changed 1 April 1952 to Danville, Illinois)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1959 as the 338th Regiment, an element of the 85th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Chicago, Illinois
  • Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st, 2d and 3d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Training)
  • Reorganized 1 October 1993 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Exercise)
  • Reorganized 16 April 1995 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Exercise)
  • Reorganized 17 October 1999 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 85th Division (Training Support)
  • Elements ordered into active military service in support of the War on Terrorism
  • (1st, 2d and 3d Battalions relieved 1 April 2007 from assignment to the 85th Division [Training Support])

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Rome-Arno
  • North Apennines
  • Po Valley

Decorations

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MOUNT ALTUZZO
  • 1st Battalion additionally entitled to:
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2003-2004
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2008-2011
  • 2d and 3d Battalions additionally entitled to:
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2004-2006
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2008-2011

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History


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