Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 August 2018
12th Infantry Regiment
(Warrior Regiment)
- Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry
- Organized 20 October 1861 at Fort Hamilton, New York
- Reorganized and redesignated 7 December 1866 as the 12th Infantry
- Assigned 17 December 1917 to the 8th Division
- Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 8th Division and assigned to the 4th Division
- Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 8th Division
- Relieved 10 October 1941 from assignment to the 8th Division and assigned to the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division)
- Inactivated 27 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina
- Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California
- Relieved 1 April 1957 from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
- Withdrawn 16 June 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 12th Infantry Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- Civil War
- Peninsula
- Manassas
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Gettysburg
- Wilderness
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Virginia 1862
- Virginia 1863
- Indian Wars
- Modocs
- Bannocks
- Pine Ridge
- War with Spain
- Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- Malolos
- Tarlac
- Luzon 1899
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase II
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- War on Terrorism
- Afghanistan:
- Consolidation II
- Consolidation III
- Iraq:
- National Resolution
- Iraqi Surge
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered LUXEMBOURG; (earned by 12th Infantry)
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SUOI TRE, VIETNAM; (earned by 2d Battalion)
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PLEIKU PROVINCE; (earned by 3d Battalion)
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DAK TO DISTRICT; (earned by 3d Battalion)
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered PLEIKU PROVINCE; (earned by 1st Battalion)
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered CENTRAL HIGHLANDS; (earned by 1st Battalion)
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered SAIGON - LONG BINH; (earned by 4th Battalion)
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered FISH HOOK; (earned by 5th Battalion)
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003-2004; (earned by 1st Battalion)
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered KUNAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN 2009; (earned by 2d Battalion)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003; (earned by 1st Battalion)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006; (earned by 1st Battalion)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2008; (earned by 2d Battalion)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2009-2010; (earned by 1st Battalion)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2009-2010; (earned by 2d Battalion)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2012; (earned by 1st and 2d Battalions)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2014; (earned by 1st and 2d Battalions)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2016; (earned by 1st Battalion)
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1995-1996; (earned by Companies B, C, and D, 3d Battalion and 4th Battalion)
- Belgian Fourragere 1940; (earned by 12th Infantry)
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium; (earned by 12th Infantry)
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes; (earned by 12th Infantry)
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History