501st Infantry Regiment (United States) - Lineages of The 1st and 2nd Bn

Lineages of The 1st and 2nd Bn

• Activated 15 November 1942 at Camp Toccoa, GA (101st Airborne Division)

• Disbanded 20 August 1945 at Camp Toccoa, GA (ahead of inactivation of 101st Airborne in November 1945)

• Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Benning, GA

• Inactivated on 23 November 1948 at Fort Benning, GA

• Active 1951–1956 at Camp Breckinridge, KY and Fort Jackson, SC, as a non-Airborne training unit

• Moved to Fort Campbell, KY in spring 1956. (Pentomic concept)

• Redesignated on 25 April 1957 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System.

• On 1 September 1957 Company A, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was re-designated as HHC, 1st Airborne Battle Group, 501st Infantry and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division; Company B, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was re-designated as HHC (Headquarters and Headquarters Company), 2nd Airborne Battle Group, 501st Infantry and assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division.

• 1 February 1964, 2nd ABG, 501st INF was reorganized and re-designated as 2nd Bn, 501st INF, relieved from assignment from 82nd Airborne and assigned to 101st Airborne Division (administrative move of unit colors only).

• 2nd Bn, 501st INF inactivated on 31 July 1972. (Part of Post Vietnam Reorganization)

• 1st Bn, 501st INF inactivated on 5 June 1984 at Fort Campbell, KY under the U.S. Army Regimental System.

• 1st Bn, 501st Inf activated 1 October 1989 at Fort Richardson, AK under the U.S. Army Regimental System.

• Assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, on 14 July 2005.