17th Infantry Regiment (United States)
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| 17th Infantry Regiment | |
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 17th Infantry Regiment coat of arms |
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| Active | 3 May 1861- |
| Country | United States of America |
| Branch | Regular Army |
| Type | Regiment |
| Motto | Truth and Courage |
| Engagements | American Civil War War with Spain World War II Korean War Vietnam War Armed Forces Expeditions - Panama |
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The 17th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army infantry regiment.
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[edit] Lineage
- 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
- (4th Battalion activated 1984)
- Withdrawn 16 November 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
- (4th Battalion inactivated 1993)
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 17th Infantry Regiment
[edit] 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
[edit] Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for Leyte
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for INCHON
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1945-1948; 1953-1957
This article incorporates text from [1], a public domain work of the United States Government.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- 2nd Lt Leighton W. Hazelhurst of the 17th Infantry Regiment was the 2nd US Military Pilot to be killed in a airplane crash June 11, 1912.
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