24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four)
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| [The 24th Infantry Today] | [Regimental Insignias] | [Lineage and Honors] |
HISTORY TO 1941
Constitution and Activation: The 24th Infantry Regiment was first constituted by Act of Congress on 28 July 1866 as the 38th Infantry Regiment with African-American enlisted personnel. The regiment was organized on 1 October 1866 at Jefferson Barracks Missouri. From 1866 to 1869 the 38th primarily provided security for the building of railroads in the southwest. In 1869 the U.S. Army was downsized by an Act of Congress. As part of the downsizing the 45 active infantry regiments were consolidated into 25 active infantry regiments. This resulted in the consolidation of the 38th Infantry Regiment and the 41st Infantry Regiment also manned by African-American enlisted personnel. The 41st Infantry had also been constituted on 28 July 1866 and organized on 25 December 1866 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The commanding officer of the 41st was Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie a famous hero of the Civil War with the executive officer being Lieutenant Colonel William R. Shafter who would lead the US Army in Cuba during the War with Spain. Prior to the consolidation, the 41st served in Louisiana and Texas.
Indian Wars: On 15 March 1869 in western Texas the two regiments were consolidated to form the 24th Infantry Regiment with Colonel Mackenzie as its commanding officer. Upon activation, the 24th Infantry was stationed at Forts McKavett, Davis, Concho and Stockton in west Texas. On 15 December 1870 Colonel Mackenzie left to take command of the 4th Cavalry Regiment. The 24th performed a variety of missions from fighting the Comanche Indians on the Staked Plains of northwestern Texas as well as other Indian tribes, providing security for settlers and Army installations and aiding in the establishment and the maintaining law and order. For over ten years the 24th Infantry played a significant role in defeating the Comanches and opening northwestern Texas to settlers. In 1880 the 24th moved to what is now the state of Oklahoma where it performed garrison duties until moving to the Department of Arizona in 1888 with the regiment split between garrisons in New Mexico and Arizona. In 1892 the regiment was consolidated at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Then from 1896 to 1899 the regiment was stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah.
War with Spain: In June 1898 with the start of the War with Spain the 24th Infantry along with just about the entire US Army invaded Cuba. As part of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division, V Corps, the 24th Infantry distinguished itself in the gallant charge of the 3rd Brigade up the open slopes of San Juan Hill against heavy enemy fire and captured at 1200 hours on 1 July 1898, the Spanish blockhouse and entrenchments guarding the approach to the city of Santiago. The regiment’s courage under fire was specifically noted in the regimental commander’s after action report. The 24th Infantry suffered 17 killed and 82 wounded in the assault with 16 members of the regiment cited for extraordinary valor. The tropical diseases such as malaria, yellow and typhoid fevers caused many more casualties in the US Army than combat. With a shortage of medical personnel to attend to the sick volunteers from the combat units were asked to tend to the sick. Upon the surrender of the Spanish forces defending Santiago some fifty members of the 24th Infantry volunteered as medical orderlies to serve the many soldiers who had contracted the tropical fevers resulting in many of the volunteers falling ill as well. In September 1898 the 24th Infantry returned to the United States with the regiment manning garrisons at Fort Douglas, Utah as well as in Wyoming, Washington, Montana and Alaska.
Philippine Insurrection: In July 1899 the elements of the 24th stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah and in Wyoming arrived in the Philippine Islands to reinforce Army units which had captured the islands from the Spanish and were then under attack by Filipino insurgents resisting the American takeover. In what was to become officially known as the Philippine Insurrection, the 24th Infantry served on the main island of Luzon until August 1902 participating in the capture of the town of San Isidro in north central Luzon in late 1899 as well as conducting numerous small unit actions on Luzon during 1900 in neutralizing bands of insurgents and securing lines of communication. In 1901 the 24th Infantry returned to the Untied States and was stationed in Montana at Fort Keogh. In 1906 it returned to Luzon for two years of garrison duty before returning to be stationed at Fort Ontario and Jefferson Barracks, New York. The 24th then subsequently returned to Luzon in 1911, serving at Camp McGrath in Manila until 1915. The regiment then returned home to be stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco.
Mexican Expedition: On 25 February 1916 the 24th Infantry had just arrived at Fort D.A. Russell, Wyoming when orders came directing it to join the Mexican Expedition led by then Brigadier General John Pershing against the Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa in response to Villa’s attack on Columbus, New Mexico on 9 March 1916. The Expedition, which first crossed into Mexico on 18 March 1916 eventually was to consist of some 5,000 soldiers and was primarily composed of five cavalry regiments, four infantry regiments and two field artillery battalions. The 24th Infantry crossed the border and joined the Expedition on 28 March 1916.
Over the course of a year Pershing and his troops penetrated some 400 miles into Mexico with the objective of destroying Villa’s forces and if possible, to capture Villa. The role of the 24th and the other three infantry regiments was to provide security for the base camps of the expedition, and to secure the lines of supply from New Mexico. The campaign consisted of a series of minor engagements between US forces and both Mexican Army and Villa’s guerrilla forces. By January 1917 the expedition began withdrawing north to the border after a diplomatic agreement between the two nations for the US forces to withdraw. All US forces had left Mexico by April 1917. While Villa was not captured, his forces were rendered largely ineffective for further raids across the international border and Washington considered the expedition a success.
The 24th Infantry had returned from Mexico to Camp Furlong at Columbus, New Mexico on 5 February 1917. Skirmishing however continued along the border. In June 1919 in what was to be the last border skirmish of any consequence, the 24th Infantry was rushed to El Paso and briefly crossed into Mexico for twenty-four hours to disperse bandits threatening the US border.
Fort Benning: The 24th again returned to Camp Furlong where it remained until 1922. On 9 October 1922 the War Department directed that the 24th Infantry’s personnel would be transferred to its sister regiment, the 25th Infantry also located at Camp Furlong except for the regimental Headquarters Company, Service Company and Company D which were transferred to the Infantry School at Fort Benning GA to serve as School Troops. In 1927 the 1st and 2nd Battalions were brought up to strength less their machine gun companies. From 1 October 1933 to 16 October 1939 the 24th Infantry was assigned to the 7th Infantry Brigade, 4th Division while remaining stationed at Fort Benning. In March 1940 the 24th was brought to full strength with the activation of the 3rd Battalion. After the United States declared war on Japan and Germany on 8 December 1941, the 24th began intensive training in preparation for overseas deployment.
World War II
One of the first Army regiments to go overseas, the 24th Infantry departed San Francisco on 13 April 1942 in three troop transports arriving on the island of Efate in the New Hebrides archipelago east of Australia on 4 May 1942. The mission of the 24th was to defend a major portion of the perimeter of this large and mountainous strategic island against a possible Japanese attack coming from the Solomon Islands to the north. In addition to their combat mission the 24th was also used in service and supply functions to include road building, the unloading of ships and installation maintenance. After US forces had liberated Guadalcanal and the danger to New Hebrides had passed, the 24th was attached to the XIV Corps and from March through August 1943 the battalions of the 24th Infantry departed Efate for the Solomon Islands. The 1st and 2nd Battalions served primarily in a logistics role on Guadalcanal and the 3rd Battalion moving to New Georgia where it also served primarily in a logistical support role.
In January 1944 1st Battalion was sent to the island of Bougainville where it was placed in XIV Corps reserve and then on 11 March was placed under the operational control of the 37th Infantry Division In turn the 37th attached the 1st Battalion to the 148th Infantry then in combat with Japanese forces. The 1st Battalion served with the 148th from 11 to 29 March getting seasoning as a jungle infantry battalion in offensive combat operations after having served in a logistical support role and as a defense force since arriving in the western Pacific. On 29 March the 1st Battalion, remaining on Bougainville, was attached to the Americal Division where it saw increased combat operations acquitting itself as jungle fighters in contributing to the defeat of Japanese forces and expanding the American beachhead around Empress Augusta Bay on the island’s west side. On 25 June the 1st Battalion departed Bougainville for the Russell Islands in the Solomon’s archipelago where it resumed logistic support services.
On 19 December 1944 the entire 24th Infantry Regiment was transferred to the islands of Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas Islands which had been taken from the Japanese by US forces in heavy combat from 15 June to 31 July 1944. The 24th Infantry was given the combat mission of rooting-out numerous pockets of Japanese soldiers still holding out on the islands in caves and jungles. A General Officer-led survey group of the War Department’s Office of the Inspector General visited Saipan in April 1945 and found the morale and discipline of the regiment to be excellent and that the superior manner by which the combat operations of the 24th Infantry were conducted in eliminating the pockets of Japanese defenders to be of such “a meritorious nature” that they brought it to the attention of the War Department’s Deputy Chief of Staff. In July 1945 the 24th Infantry having successfully accomplished its missions on Saipan and Tinian moved to the Kerama Islands near Okinawa in the Ryukyus to eliminate pockets of Japanese holdouts. Shortly after arrival the Japanese garrison capitulated to the 24th Infantry Regiment with a surrender ceremony on Aka Island; the first formal surrender of a Japanese garrison to US Forces in WWII. From there the 24th moved to Okinawa where it served as part of the occupation force for that island through 1946.
Occupation of Japan
On 1 February 1947 the 24th Infantry Regiment was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division which was then serving in the occupation of Japan with Headquarters in Osaka on the main island of Honshu. The 24th Infantry replaced the inactivating 4th Infantry Regiment. From Okinawa the 24th was sent to the Gifu Prefecture northeast of Osaka and occupied the former Japanese airfield of Kagamigahara then known by the US Army as Camp Majestic the former camp of the 27th Infantry Regiment. It was renamed Camp Gifu upon the arrival of the 24th Infantry. Also assigned to the 25th Infantry Division at that time were the 159th Field Artillery Battalion and the 77th Engineer Combat Company both manned by African-American personnel. Together these three units formed the 24th Regimental Combat Team.
The Eighth Army units in Japan were faced with a continuing struggle to maintain combat readiness while fulfilling their occupation duties. As the Cold War intensified in Europe US defense efforts concentrated in Europe at the expense of the Far East. Army divisions in Japan were reduced in strength and were left with old and often unserviceable equipment left over from World War II.
In the case of the 25th Infantry Division only one regiment, the 24th Infantry had all three battalions at full strength. Known for its athletic teams and its mastery of drill and ceremonies, the 24th also strived as much as occupation duties permitted to maintain its combat readiness. By 1949 combat training received increased priority within the Eighth Army. For the 24th Infantry this meant being able to conduct extensive field maneuvers up to and including the regimental level which increased combat readiness despite being hampered by shortages of some crew-served weapons, radios, rifle firing pins, field clothing and boots; shortages that were common throughout the combat units of the Eighth Army. It was with these experiences as an occupation force that the 24th Infantry Regiment was to enter combat against the North Korean Army in July 1950.
Korean War
Upon landing at Pusan the 25th Infantry Division was initially positioned some one hundred miles north of Pusan and given the mission of blocking and delaying advancing North Korean forces down the Naktong River valley from the northwest. On 21 July 1950 the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry supported by other elements of the 24th Regimental Combat Team conducted the first major offensive mission of the 25th Infantry Division with its recapture of the vital road junction town of Yechon driving out the North Korean defenders and repulsing a North Korean attempts to retake the town. It was considered by the Congress and the Department of Defense as the first sizeable American ground victory of the war.
The 25th Infantry Division remained in the upper Naktong River valley into August in the area near the town of Sangju. The regiments of the 25th conducted delaying actions, trading space for time against ever increasing North Korean pressure. Fearing a North Korean breakthrough to Pusan along the South Korean coast the 25th Infantry Division was transferred by Eighth Army over one hundred miles by trains and trucks on 1-3 August 1950 to the vicinity of the city of Masan situated astride the southern coast road approaching Pusan from the west. By 3 August the 25th was in its new defensive positions extending some twenty miles in width from the southern coast north to the confluence of the Naktong and Nam rivers.
The 24th Infantry Regiment held the center of the line in rugged mountain ridges and peaks of Subok-san to include Hill 665 which was to become known as Battle Mountain and Hill 743 known as Pil-bong. These mountain peaks had no roads or trails leading up their eastern slopes making it extremely difficult for U.S. forces to attack up them, as well as taking hours to re-supply units on them and to bring down casualties. Strong North Korean attacks with overwhelming force hit the 25th Infantry Division time-and-again. In the 24th Infantry sector, Battle Mountain and Pil-bong were often overrun and then retaken in hand-to-hand combat with heavy casualties. On 6 August during an ambush of elements of the 3rd Battalion near the village of Haman, PFC William Thompson, Company M, 24th Infantry, manned a machine gun in an exposed position and placed accurate fire on the attacking North Koreans until mortally wounded giving his unit time to react to the attack. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism. Through August and into September the 25th Infantry Division successfully held its defensive sector preventing the North Korean forces from breaking through to Pusan. For this significant achievement the division including the 24th Infantry, was awarded a Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation.
In conjunction with General MacArthur’s surprise landing of the X Corps at Inchon on 15 September 1950 the United Nations forces in the Pusan Perimeter went on the offensive. In the 25th Division sector strong enemy resistance on the mountain peaks of the Subok-san delayed undertaking the offensive until 19 September when the mountain peaks and ridges had been cleared by the 24th Infantry in the face of weakening but stubborn enemy resistance.
Once the mountains were in friendly hands the 25th went on the offensive. An attack to the west on two axes of advance was to be conducted with motorized task forces one of which consisted primarily of the 24th Infantry Regiment. Starting on 27 September and moving rapidly that task force brushed aside North Korean delaying actions rapidly seizing several Korean towns and in the process managed to liberate close to one hundred American prisoners. By 30 September the 24th Infantry had reached and liberated the west coast port city of Kunsan.
In October, after linking up with the X Corps, the Eighth Army crossed the 38th Parallel into North Korea while the 25th Division remained in South Korea. The 24th Infantry and the other elements of the 25th Division were given the mission of eliminating surviving fragments of North Korean units south and east of the city of Taejon which had been bypassed by American forces and were threatening the American supply lines. By early November the 25th Division had successfully accomplished its mission of securing and stabilizing the area around Taejon and was moved north to Kaesong to continue the mission of eliminating pockets of bypassed enemy units along the 38th Parallel.
After rapidly completing that mission, the 25th was moved north and on 19 November 1950 into the front lines which by then were deep into North Korea near Anju. Taking the offensive, the Tropic Lightning quickly ran into stiff resistance and was thrown onto the defensive as massive Chinese Communist Forces attacked and penetrated the Eighth Army line to the right of the 25th Division and opened up the 25th Division’s right flank held by the 24th Infantry Regiment. Taking heavy casualties as the Chinese hit the right flank of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Infantry and with Chinese troops moving to their rear, the 24th Infantry along with the rest of the 25th Division began a series of delaying actions back down the peninsula, reaching Kaesong on 8 December and then south of the Imjin River in South Korea by the 14 December. Continuing Chinese pressure forced the Eighth Army including the 25th Division to withdraw further south to the 37th Parallel near Osan by 3 January 1951.
On 25 January the 25th Division participated in the United Nations counteroffensive reaching the Han River by 19 February. On 7 March the 24th Infantry conducted a well executed assault crossing of the Han as the 25th drove north inflicting heavy casualties on the Communist forces reaching and holding a line just south of the city of Chorwon by the end of March. After crossing the Hantan River on April 11, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry attacked a steep ridge line defended by heavily dug-in Chinese forces and was initially repulsed. Two days later in bitter fighting the ridge was taken by the 24th Infantry.
On 22 April the Chinese started a new offensive that pushed back the United Nations forces including the 25th Division to the area just north of Seoul. Another UN counteroffensive beginning on 20 May drove the Chinese back north across the 38th Parallel.
On 2 June 1951 near the town of Chipo-ri, Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry was assaulting a heavily defended ridge line when the platoon leader became a casualty. Sergeant Cornelius Charlton took command and led a charge up the ridge wiping out three enemy bunkers with his rifle and grenades despite receiving serious wounds. His bravery inspired his platoon to seize the crest of the ridge in one final charge. He succumbed to his wounds and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his extreme gallantry.
By the middle of June the 25th Division had captured the town of Kumhwa and then on 21 June the Tropic Lightning was taken off the line and placed in reserve near Uijongbu. Armistice negotiations started on 10 July 1951. In mid July the 25th went back on the line to its previous positions near the towns of Chorwon and Kumhwa.
While the armistice negotiations were underway the two sides went on the defensive. The 24th Infantry Regiment like the other Eighth Army units in contact with the enemy, restricted their offensive actions to company-sized limited objective attacks and patrolling. One of the last significant combat actions of the 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea involved the regiment’s Company F which on 15 September 1951 near the village of Mando captured a key Communist outpost with a gallant bayonet and grenade charge.
Shortly thereafter in conjunction with the integration of the US Army the 24th Infantry Regiment was inactivated effective 1 October 1951 at Chipo-ri, Korea after six Korean War campaigns and 85 years of continuous service in the United States Army.
The other two elements of the 24th Regimental Combat Team, the 159th Field Artillery Battalion and the 77th Engineer Combat Company both of which had rendered excellent direct support to the 24th Infantry through six Korean campaigns were integrated and remained active, serving in all ten campaigns of the Korean War. The 77th continued to serve with the Tropic Lightning until the 1953 then was inactivated. While assigned to the Tropic Lightning the 159th Field Artillery Battalion received a Navy Presidential Unit Citation for its support of the 1st Marine Division near Wonju in April 1951. On 12 November 1951 the 159th was reassigned to the Eighth Army and remained in Korea until 1955.
Reactivation
On 16 August 1995 the 24th Infantry Regiment was reorganized as a parent regiment under the US Army Regimental System. Company A, 24th Infantry was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry (remaining battalion organic elements concurrently constituted and activated). The 1st Battalion was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division and activated on 16 August 1995 as a light infantry battalion in the 1st Brigade with station at Fort Lewis, Washington. In 1996 Company B, 1st Battalion received an Army Superior Unit Award. Beginning in the spring of 2002, the 1st Battalion was reorganized and reequipped as a Stryker infantry battalion. The battalion was certified as combat-ready in the summer of 2004.
Iraq Campaign 2004-2005
Arriving in Iraq in October 2004 the 1st Brigade (Stryker) 25th Infantry Division replaced the 3rd Brigade (Stryker), 2nd Infantry Division in and around the city of Mosul located north of Baghdad in Nineveh Province with a population of some two million. The 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry’s area of operations consisted of the densely populated Sunni Arab western half of the city of Mosul that contained a large number of foreign fighters.
The battalion immediately began employing aggressive tactics setting up outposts to draw the insurgents out to fight. This resulted in some twenty engagements a day causing heavy enemy casualties and thus weakening the insurgents hold on the population. As a result Iraqi national elections in January 2005 were successfully conducted in the city and on schedule. The 1st Battalion aided in rebuilding the Mosul police force and participated in civil affairs initiatives that proved popular with the citizens such as medical clinics for children and their mothers. By spring of 2005 the aggressive combat operations of the 1st Battalion had so weakened the insurgents that daily insurgent attacks had been reduced to less than five a day.
In its one year tour of duty in Iraq the 1st Battalion suffered ten of its members killed in action and 157 wounded in action. For its gallantry and determination in the execution of its combat operations during 2005 in Nineveh Province, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment received a Valorous Unit Award.
THE 24TH INFANTRY REGIMENT TODAY
The 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment returned to Fort Lewis from Iraq in September 2005. It was inactivated on 1 June 2006 with its personnel and equipment being transferred to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Stryker). On 16 December 2006 the 1st Battalion was reactivated as an element of the 1st Brigade Combat Team (Stryker), 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright, Alaska using the personnel and equipment of the inactivating 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment. Read more about them.
 Motto: SEMPER PARATUS (Always Prepared)
Distinctive Unit Insignia Description: A gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/4 inches (3.18cm) in width overall consisting of a blue disc bearing a white blockhouse with tower masoned and roofed gold below a gold scroll inscribed “SAN JUAN” in blue letters. Attached below the disc a gold scroll turned blue and inscribed “SEMPER PARATUS” in blue letters.
Symbolism: The design commemorates the gallant service of the regiment in the Santiago campaign of 1898.
Background: The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 24th Infantry on 12 Jan 1923. It was amended to correct the motto on 21 Mar 1923; amended to add the authorization for wear of the DUI on 7 May 1923 and amended to add to the authorization for wear of the DUI on 21 Sep 1925. On 23 Oct 1925 it was amended to change the appearance of the DUI. The insignia was cancelled and a new insignia authorized on 17 May 1927.
Regimental Badge Description: On a blue field a block house of masonry with tower, walls in color of grey stone, roofs yellow. On a yellow scroll, the words “SAN JUAN” in blue. All encircled by a yellow band bearing the motto in blue “SEMPER PARATUS” (Always Prepared).
Symbolism: Blue is the color associated with Infantry. The house with tower depicts a blockhouse at San Juan Santiago de Cuba and commemorates the 1898 campaign service of the regiment.
Background: The badge was approved on 27 Mar 1920. The badge is used as the crest on the organizational colors. The breast of the eagle on the colors is feathered.
24th INFANTRY REGIMENT LINEAGE
1866 Constituted 28 July in the Regular Army as the 38th Infantry
1866 Organized 1 October at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
1869 Consolidated 15 March with the 41st Infantry (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit redesignated as the 24th Infantry
1947 Assigned 1 February to the 25th Infantry Division
1951 Relieved 1 August from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
1951 Inactivated 1 October in Korea
1995 Reorganized 16 August as a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System
2005 Redesignated 1 October as the 24th Infantry Regiment
ANNEX
1866 Constituted 28 July in the Regular Army as the 41st Infantry
1866 Organized 25 December at Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Indian Wars
Comanches
War With Spain
Santiago
Philippine Insurrection
San Isidro
Luzon 1900
Mexican Expedition
Mexico 1916-1917
World War II
Northern Solomons
Western Pacific
Korean War
UN Defensive
UN Offensive
CCF Intervention
First UN Counteroffensive
CCF Spring Offensive
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE 2005 Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered MASAN-CHINJU
1st BATTALION 24th INFANTRY REGIMENT LINEAGE
1866 Constituted 28 July in the Regular Army as Company A, 38th Infantry
1866 Organized 1 October at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
1869 Consolidated 15 March with Company A, 41st Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit redesignated as Company A, 24th Infantry
1947 Assigned 1 February to the 25th Infantry Division
1951 Relieved 1 August from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
1951 Inactivated 1 October in Korea 1995 Redesignated 16 August as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
2005 Redesignated 1 October as the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment
2006 Inactivated 1 June at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
2006 Assigned 16 December to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Wainwright, Alaska
ANNEX
1866 Constituted 28 July in the Regular Army as Company A, 41st Infantry
1866 Organized 25 December at Baton Rouge, Louisiana
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION
Indian Wars
Comanches
War With Spain
Santiago
Philippine Insurrection
San Isidro
Luzon 1900
Mexican Expedition
Mexico 1916-1917
World War II
Northern Solomons
Western Pacific
Korean War
UN Defensive
UN Offensive
CCF Intervention
First UN Counteroffensive
CCF Spring Offensive
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE 2005
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered MASAN-CHINJU
Company B additionally entitled to: Army Superior Unit Award for 1996