179th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Lineage

• Constituted 2 May 1890 in the Oklahoma Volunteer Militia as the 1st Infantry Regiment
• Organized 21 December 1895 from new and existing militia companies as the 1st Infantry Regiment, with headquarters at Guthrie
• Consolidated of Arizona and New Mexico to form the 1st Regiment Territorial Volunteer Infantry, United States Volunteers, and mustered into federal service 4–23 July 1898; mustered out of federal service 11–15 February 1899 at Albany, Georgia
• Former 1st Infantry Regiment, Oklahoma National Guard, reorganized in 1899 as the 1st Regiment of Infantry, with headquarters at Guthrie
• Mustered into federal service 27 out of federal service 1 March 1917 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
• Called into federal service 31 March 1917; drafted into federal service 5 August 1917
• Consolidated 15 October 1917 with the 7th Infantry, Texas National Guard, and consolidated unit redesignated as the 142d Infantry, an element of the 36th Division
• Demobilized 17 June 1919 at Camp Bowie, Texas
• Central Oklahoma elements of former 142d Infantry merged during 1920–1921 with elements of the 2d Infantry, to form the 2d Infantry, with headquarters at Oklahoma City
• Redesignated 14 October 1921 as Division
• Inducted into federal service 16 September Oklahoma City
• Inactivated 17–29 November 1945 at Camp Bowie, Texas
• Reorganized 10 September 1946 in the Oklahoma National Guard as the 179th Infantry, with Headquarters federally recognized at Edmond
• Ordered into active federal service 1 September 1950 at Edmond
• Released from active federal service 20 April 1954 and reverted to state control; federal recog nition concurrently withdrawn from the 179th Infantry
• Reorganized 1 May 1959 as the 179th Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st and 2d Battle Groups, elements of the 45th Infantry Division
• Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 45th Infantry Division
• Reorganized 1 February 1968 to consist of the 1st Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 45th Infantry Division
• Withdrawn 1 May 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
• Ordered into active federal service 30 November 2002 at home stations; released from active federal service 26 August 2003 and reverted to state control
• Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 179th Infantry Regiment
• Ordered into active federal service 20 October 2007 at home stations; released from active federal service 22 November 2008 and reverted to state control
• Assigned 1 September 2008 to the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
• Ordered into active federal service 27 March 2011 at home stations

  Current units

• Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment
• Company A, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment
• Company B, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment
• Company C, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment
• Company D, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment
• Company H, 700th Support Battalion

  Campaign streamers

• Meuse-Argonne

• Sicily
• Naples-Foggia
• Anzio
• Rome-Arno
• Southern France
• Rhineland
• Ardennes-Alsace
• Central Europe

• Second Korean winter
• Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
• Third Korean winter
• Korea, Summer 1953

• Iraq Surge 2008

• Consolidation III -
• Transition I -

  Battlefield or campaign honors and awards

Unit Decorations

• French Croix de Guerre with Palm awarded to 45th Infantry Division for action from 1–31 January 1944 at Acquafondata
• Army Meritorious Unit Commendation, Iraq 2008

• A Company, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment
• B Company, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment
• C Company, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment

• *B Company, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment

Streamers

• Meritorious Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008