Re-designation of 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment
The unit derived from the 4th Battalion, 8th Infantry regiment, 1st Armored Division, which served in Mannheim, Germany until the unit was sent (along with the rest of the brigade) to Fort Lewis, Washington in the summer of 1994. That fall, the regiment was inactivated and re-designated 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. This enabled units of the 2nd Infantry Division to set foot on US soil for the first time since the Korean War began.
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