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-- General Dwight D Eisenhower

1st Battalion, 24th Infantry

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Constituted 28 July 1866 in the Regular Army as Company A, 38th Infantry

Organized 1 October 1866 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri

Consolidated 15 March 1869 with Company A, 41st Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit redesignated as Company A, 24th Infantry

(24th Infantry assigned 1 February 1947 to the 25th Infantry Division; relieved 1 August 1951 from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division)

Inactivated 1 October 1951 in Korea

Redesignated 16 August 1995 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)

ANNEX

Constituted 28 July 1866 in the Regular Army as Company A, 41st Infantry

Organized 25 December 1866 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1st Battalion
24th Infantry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Indian Wars: * Comanches

War with Spain: * Santiago

Philippine Insurrection: * San Isidro; * Luzon 1900

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

Decorations

* Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for MASAN-CHINJU

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