Lineages and Honors Information
Regiments
Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 August 2018
317th Regiment
- Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 317th Infantry and assigned to the 80th Division
- Organized 23-27 August 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia
- Demobilized 13-14 June at Camp Lee, Virginia
- Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 317th Infantry and assigned to the 80th Division (later redesignated as the 80th Infantry Division)
- Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Lynchburg, Virginia
- Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Forrest, Tennessee
- Inactivated 10 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Redesignated 15 July 1946 as the 317th Parachute Infantry, an element of the 80th Airborne Division
- Redesignated 23 September 1946 as the 317th Glider Infantry
- Activated 14 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Washington, D.C.
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 5 October 1950 as the 317th Airborne Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 May 1952 as the 317th Infantry, an element of the 80th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 6 March 1959 as the 317th Regiment, an element of the 80th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Washington, D.C.
- (Location of Headquarters changed 1 December 1960 to Riverdale, Maryland)
- Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Training)
- Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Institutional Training)
- Reorganized 15 October 2006 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Institutional Training)
- Regiment reorganized 1 October 2007 as a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System; concurrently 1st and 2d Battalions relieved from assignment to the 80th Division (Institutional Training)
- Reorganized 15 October 2016 to consist of the 2d Battalion
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Somme Offensive
- Meuse-Argonne
- Picardy 1918
- World War II
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
Decorations
None
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History