17th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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branch=Regular Army
dates=3 May 1861-
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motto="Truth and Courage"
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battles=American Civil War
War with Spain
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Korean War
Vietnam War
Armed Forces Expeditions - Panama
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previous=16th Infantry Regiment
next=18th Infantry RegimentThe 17th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army infantry regiment.

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
*Withdrawn 16 November 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System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) 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

External links

*2nd Lt [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hazelhur.htm Leighton W. Hazelhurst] of the 17th Infantry Regiment was the 2nd US Military Pilot to be killed in a airplane crash June 11, 1912.