Lineages and Honors Information
Regiments

Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 April 2018

346th Regiment

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 346th Infantry and assigned to the 87th Division
  • Organized 4 September 1917 at Camp Pike, Arkansas
  • Demobilized 6-8 April 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey; Camp Upton, New York; and Camp Devens, Massachusetts
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 346th Infantry and assigned to the 87th Division (later redesignated as the 87th Infantry Division)
  • Organized in December 1921 with Headquarters at Selma, Alabama
  • Ordered into active military service 15 December 1942 and reorganized at Camp McCain, Mississippi
  • Inactivated 21 September 1945 at Fort Benning, Georgia
  • Activated 1 January 1947 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • (Location of Headquarters changed 9 November 1948 to Jackson, Mississippi)
  • Inactivated 31 March 1955 at Jackson, Mississippi, and relieved from assignment to the 87th Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 1 October 1993 as the 346th Regiment and reorganized to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 87th Division (Exercise)
  • Reorganized 13 January 1995 to consist of the 2d and 3d Battalions, elements of the 87th Division (Exercise)
  • Reorganized 17 October 1999 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 87th Division (Training Support); 1st Battalion concurrently allotted to the Regular Army
  • Elements ordered into active military service in support of the War on Terrorism
  • (1st Battalion relieved 1 December 2006 from assignment to the 87th Division [Training Support])
  • Regiment reorganized 1 April 2007 as a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System; concurrently 2d and 3d Battalions relieved from assignment to the 87th Division (Training Support)

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

Decorations

  • 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions each entitled to:
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2008-2011

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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