38th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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next=39th Infantry RegimentThe 38th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army infantry regiment.

Lineage

*Constituted 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Company A, 38th Infantry
*Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York
*(38th Infantry assigned 1 October 1917 to the 3d Division)
*38th Infantry assigned to Fort Douglas, Utah, June 5, 1922 to Summer 1940. [ [http://www.usarc.army.mil/96thrsc/History/Historic%20Forts/Fort%20Douglas/Fort%20Douglas%20chronology.htm Fort Douglas Chronology ] ]
*(38th Infantry relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 3d Division and assigned to the 2d Division [later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division] )
*Redesignated 8 November 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 38th Infantry, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division
*Inactivated 4 March 1958
*(Organic elements constituted 26 January 1962)
*Battle Group assigned 19 February 1962 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia
*Reorganized and redesignated 10 May 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry
*Inactivated 16 December 1986 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division
*Headquarters transferred 28 August 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia
*Battalion redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment
*Headquarters inactivated 27 April 2006 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and withdrawn from the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
*Battalion assigned 1 June 2006 to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington

Campaign Participation Credit

* World War I : Aisne; Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Champagne 1918
* World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
* 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
*Operation Iraqi Freedom : OIF V, Served in Baghdad and Baqouba

Decorations

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HILL 154, BREST
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for KRINKELT
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MARNE RIVER
*French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II for BREST
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Elsenborn Crest
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1952
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1950-1953