Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 28 June 2016
1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment
(ROCK OF THE MARNE)
- 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)
- Inactivated 1 October 1933 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Activated 1 May 1939 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- (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- Headquarters inactivated 27 April 2006 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and withdrawn from the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command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
- Relieved 16 March 2014 from assignment to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
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
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Surge
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HILL 154, BREST
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered KRINKELT
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2008
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2012-2013
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MARNE RIVER
- French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered 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, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History