The 54th Infantry Regiment (for a time, known as the 54th Armored Infantry Regiment) is a United States Army Regimental System parent regiment of the United States Army. It is represented in the active Army by the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, which conduct Infantry One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning), Georgia.

History

The regiment was constituted on 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as the 54th Infantry. It was organized on 16 June 1917 at Chickamauga Park, Georgia. It was assigned on 16 November 1917 to the 6th Division. It saw service in France during World War I, earning battle honors for the Meuse-Argonne and Alsace 1918 campaigns. On 29 June 1922, the 2nd Infantry Regiment was designated as the 54th's "Active Associate" unit, intended to furnish a cadre to reactivate the regiment in the event of war. On 17 July 1922, the 17th Infantry Regiment was designated as the regiment's Active Associate. The 54th Infantry Regiment was inactivated on 24 October 1922 at Fort Wayne, Michigan. On 24 March 1923, the regiment was relieved from the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division. In 1926, the regiment was organized as a "Regular Army Inactive" unit with Organized Reserve personnel with its headquarters at Omaha, Nebraska. The "Active Associate" program was discontinued in 1927. In 1930, the regiment was affiliated with the Reserve Officers Training Corps programs at Creighton University and the University of Nebraska, and was manned using Regular Army program staff and Reserve personnel commissioned from the programs. The regiment was relieved on 1 October 1940 from assignment to the 7th Division. Redesignated 14 June 1942 as the 54th Armored Infantry, it was then assigned on 15 July to the 10th Armored Division and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia. Today, 2nd Battalion, 54th Infantry Regiment is a One Station Unit Training battalion on Sand Hill, Fort Moore, Georgia. It has been the starting place for the training of tens of thousands of United States Army Infantrymen over the past three decades. The 3rd Battalion, 54th Infantry regiment was reactivated on 2 August 2019 as a One Station Unit Training unit on Sand Hill, Fort Benning, Georgia. The unit was reactivated to enable the success of the army's new 22-week OSUT training regime.

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