Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 31 March 2015
2d Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment
- Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Company B, 325th Infantry, an element of the 82d Division
- Organized 1 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
- Demobilized 18 May 1919 at Camp Upton, New York
- Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Company B, 325th Infantry, an element of the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division)
- Organized in January 1922 at Columbus, Georgia
- Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Company B, 325th Glider Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as Company B, 325th Infantry
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
- Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1948 as Company B, 325th Airborne Infantry
- Inactivated 1 September 1957 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Airborne Battle Group, 325th Infantry
- Redesignated 6 March 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 325th Infantry, and assigned to the 82d Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion activated 25 May 1964 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment
- Relieved 16 June 2006 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division and assigned to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 82d Airborne Division
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- St. Mihiel
- Meuse-Argonne
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Sicily
- Naples-Foggia
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Rhineland (with arrowhead)
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Southwest Asia,
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- New Dawn
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SALERNO
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD 2003-2004
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE JAN-FEB 2005
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE MAY-SEP 2005
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD 2007-2008
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2011
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1987-1988
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2010
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COTENTIN
- French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
- Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN 1944
- Netherlands Orange Lanyard
- 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 in Belgium and Germany
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Richard W. Stewart, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History