16th Infantry Regiment
Assignment not established
The available record does not establish a precise assignment throughout this interval. No division is inferred.
First division shown1st Infantry Division8 Jun 1917
Separate battalion histories5 documented elementsDated lineages and service notes below
Page cutoff8 September 2026Last-documented status is explicitly marked
One regiment, separate assignments
The common row follows the regiment. After its reorganization, battle groups and battalions could hold different assignments at the same time. A deployment or temporary attachment does not by itself change the assigned division. The common row closes on 15 Feb 1957; later service belongs to the separate element rows. Battalion rows follow headquarters lineages, often descended from lettered companies, rather than assuming that the old regimental battalions continued unchanged.
Division patches
Representative division patches. Patterns could change over time; an image does not imply that the exact version was worn throughout every period. Divisions without a verified asset remain identified by name.
At a glance
Assignments across time
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- Division assignment
- 1st Infantry
- 2d Infantry
- 8th Infantry
- Separate headquarters
- Training / academy
- Inactive
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Division timeline
Deployments, operations and credited campaign service appear inside assignment cards. Award years establish credited service, not exact tour dates. Some service notes identify only company-sized elements. This is a sourced selection, not a complete movement log.
Assignment ends are exclusive: the next period starts on that date. *Striped final bars mean last documented, with later status unverified through the page cutoff. Unknown intervals are not treated as inactive.
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1 Jan 1916 – 8 Jun 1917
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8 Jun 1917 – 15 Feb 1957
16th Infantry Regiment
1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
Deployments & overseas operations
1918
France: Montdidier-Noyon, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne
16th Infantry Regiment · Campaign service
Campaign participation is recorded in the Army lineage. The year label summarizes campaign service, not an exact overseas tour.
Source1942-1945
North Africa, Sicily, Normandy and Central Europe
16th Infantry Regiment · Campaign service
Campaign participation is recorded in the Army lineage. The year label summarizes campaign service, not an exact overseas tour.
Source
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15 Feb 1957 – 13 Mar 1959
1st Battle Group / Battalion lineage
1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
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13 Mar 1959 – 25 Apr 1963
1st Battle Group / Battalion lineage
8th Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
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25 Apr 1963 – 15 May 1991
1st Battle Group / Battalion lineage
1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
Deployments & overseas operations
1990-1991
Saudi Arabia and Iraq
1st Battle Group / Battalion lineage · Deployment / overseas operation
Deployed for Desert Shield and Desert Storm with the 1st Infantry Division. The labeled service overlaps an assignment change and is listed only once; consult the following assignment cards as well.
Source1965-1970
South Vietnam
1st Battle Group / Battalion lineage · Deployment / overseas operation
Combat service with the 1st Infantry Division.
Source
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15 May 1991 – 16 Jul 1991
1st Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Inactive
The unit or its headquarters lineage was inactive. This status does not imply that every inherited honor or divisional affiliation was erased.
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16 Jul 1991 – page cutoff*
1st Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Last documented: 1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage. The source establishes this last recorded status, not uninterrupted service through 2026. The striped bar extends to the page cutoff to keep the later research gap visible.
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15 Feb 1957 – 1 Oct 1963
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Inactive
The unit or its headquarters lineage was inactive. This status does not imply that every inherited honor or divisional affiliation was erased.
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1 Oct 1963 – 19 Aug 1974
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
Deployments & overseas operations
1965-1970
South Vietnam
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage · Deployment / overseas operation
Combat service with the 1st Infantry Division.
Source
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19 Aug 1974 – 1 May 1976
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Inactive
The unit or its headquarters lineage was inactive. This status does not imply that every inherited honor or divisional affiliation was erased.
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1 May 1976 – 21 Sep 1976
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
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21 Sep 1976 – 16 Dec 1979
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Inactive
The unit or its headquarters lineage was inactive. This status does not imply that every inherited honor or divisional affiliation was erased.
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16 Dec 1979 – 15 Feb 1996
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
Deployments & overseas operations
1991
Iraq and Kuwait
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage · Credited overseas service
The Army lineage lists a unit decoration for service in these years. These are credited service years, not exact deployment and return dates.
Source
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15 Feb 1996 – 16 Jan 2006
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Inactive
The unit or its headquarters lineage was inactive. This status does not imply that every inherited honor or divisional affiliation was erased.
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16 Jan 2006 – 1 May 2015
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
1st Infantry Division
Division names are normalized across historical redesignations. This entry follows the cited unit lineage.
Deployments & overseas operations
2007-2008
Baghdad, Iraq
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage · Credited overseas service
The Army lineage lists a unit decoration for service in these years. These are credited service years, not exact deployment and return dates.
Source
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1 May 2015 – page cutoff*
2d Battle Group / Battalion lineage
Last documented: Inactive
The unit or its headquarters lineage was inactive. This status does not imply that every inherited honor or divisional affiliation was erased. The source establishes this last recorded status, not uninterrupted service through 2026. The striped bar extends to the page cutoff to keep the later research gap visible.
Service note · dates incomplete
3d Battalion · Army Reserve service
Served with the 94th Infantry Division from May 1959 to January 1963, then the separate 187th Infantry Brigade. The association records inactivation on 15 April 1994.
Service note · dates incomplete
4th Battalion · Germany
Activated in February 1983, served with the 1st Infantry Division (Forward) at Goppingen, and was inactivated on 16 July 1991.
Service note · dates incomplete
5th Battalion · Fort Riley
Activated in February 1983, served with the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, and was inactivated on 16 July 1991.
Sources and scope
Army Center of Military History lineage certificates provide the dated backbone. Regimental associations and secondary histories supplement individual operations and battalions. Where the evidence stops, the page says so. A page cutoff is not a claim that every unit directory was current on that date.
Earlier battalions are covered by common regimental service; separately dated lineages and substantiated later battalions receive their own rows or notes. A unit graphic alone is not evidence of a battalion assignment. Reserve, training and inactive organizations are distinguished from active combat units.
- U.S. Army Center of Military History: 1st Battalion 16th Infantry Regiment
- U.S. Army Center of Military History: 2d Battalion 16th Infantry Regiment
- 16th Infantry Regiment Association: battalion histories
- 16th Infantry Regiment history (Wikipedia; secondary)
Patch artwork
Unmodified artwork from Wikimedia Commons; individual file pages identify the artist and license. Insignia represent the divisions, not regimental affiliation badges.
- 1st Infantry Division · file and credit · public domain
- 8th Infantry Division · file and credit · public domain
