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Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 August 2010

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323d REGIMENT

 

Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 323d Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division

Organized 29 August 1917 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina

Demobilized 17-30 June 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia; Camp Jackson, South Carolina; Camp Stuart, Virginia; Camp Gordon, Georgia; Camp Upton, New York; and Camp Dix, New Jersey

Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 323d Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division (later redesignated as the 81st Infantry Division)

Organized in December 1921 with Headquarters at Knoxville, Tennessee

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

Inactivated 20 January 1946 in Japan

Activated 6 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Clemson, South Carolina

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

Relieved 1 March 1952 from assignment to the 81st Infantry Division and assigned to the 108th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 30 April 1959 as the 323d Regiment, an element of the 108th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Clemson, South Carolina

Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Training)

Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)

Reorganized 13 January 1995 to consist of the 3d Battalion, an element of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)

Reorganized 16 October 1996 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)

Elements ordered into active military service in support of the War on Terrorism

Reorganized 17 October 2005 to consist of the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th Battalions, elements of the 108th Division (Institutional Training)

Relieved 1 October 2007 from assignment to the 108th Division (Institutional Training) and assigned to the 98th Training Division

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                      World War I
                                                      Meuse-Argonne
                                                      Lorraine 1918

                                                      World War II
                                                      Western Pacific
                                                      Leyte

 

DECORATIONS

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

 

             

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History


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