Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 August 2015
389th Regiment
- Constituted 23 July 1918 in the National Army as the 389th Infantry and assigned to the 98th Division
- Demobilized 30 November 1918
- Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 389th Infantry and assigned to the 98th Division (later redesignated as the 98th Infantry Division)
- Organized in December 1921 with Headquarters at Albany, New York
- Ordered into active military service 15 September 1942 and reorganized at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky
- Inactivated 16 February 1946 in Japan
- Activated 19 December 1946 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Albany, New York
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- (Location of Headquarters changed 13 August 1948 to Schenectady, New York)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as the 389th Regiment, an element of the 98th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Schenectady, New York
- Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Training)
- Reorganized 17 November 1982 to consist of the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Training)
- Reorganized 1 March 1991 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 4th Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Training)
- Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 4th Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training)
- Reorganized 13 January 1995 to consist of the 4th Battalion, an element of the 98th Division (Training)
- Reorganized 16 October 1996 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training)
- Elements ordered into active military service in support of the War on Terrorism
- (1st and 2d Battalions relieved 1 October 2007 from assignment to the 98th Division [Institutional Training], and assigned to the 95th Division [Institutional Training])
- (1st and 2d Battalions relieved 1 October 2008 from assignment to the 95th Division [Institutional Training], and assigned to the 98th Training Division)
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer
- without inscription
Decorations
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History
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