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322d Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 September 2008

322d Regiment Lineage

Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 322d Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division

Organized 31 August 1917 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina

Demobilized 22 June 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia

Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 322d Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division (later redesignated as the 81st Infantry Division)

Organized in January 1922 with Headquarters at Greensboro, North Carolina

Ordered into active military service 15 June 1942 and reorganized at Camp Rucker, Alabama

Inactivated 20 January 1946 in Japan

Activated 9 December 1946 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Macon, Georgia

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

(Location of Headquarters changed 1 November 1957 to Athens, Georgia)

Reorganized 1 May 1959 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System to consist of the 1st Battle Group, an element of the 81st Infantry Division

Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 81st Infantry Division

1st and 2d Battalions inactivated 31 December 1965 and relieved from assignment to the 81st Infantry Division

322d Infantry withdrawn 1 October 1993 from the Combat Arms Regimental System; concurrently redesignated as the 322d Regiment and reorganized to consist of the 2d and 3d Battalions, elements of the 78th Division (Exercise)

Reorganized 17 October 1999 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 78th Division (Training Support)

Reorganized 15 April 2000 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 78th Division (Training Support)

(Elements ordered into active military service 2002-2008 at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia)

Relieved 1 April 2007 from assignment to the 78th Division (Training Support)

322d Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918

World War II: Western Pacific (with arrowhead); Leyte

Decorations

Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2004-2005

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945


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