28th Infantry Regiment
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
The 28th Infantry Regiment, the Black Lions, was organized in 1901 during the same wave of Army expansion that produced several of the other numbered regiments in this part of the list. From the start it was part of a more globally oriented Army shaped by the Philippines and America's new overseas commitments.
In the twentieth century the regiment became strongly associated with the 1st Infantry Division. It fought with that division in the world wars and later through battalion service in the Vietnam-era Army, preserving one of the more recognizable regimental identities within the Big Red One.
The Black Lions therefore belong to the group of early-twentieth-century regiments whose history is less about frontier service and more about the division-based wars that defined the modern U.S. Army.
Battalion Page
A dedicated battalion subpage now collects the regiment's known battalion icons and short sketches for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions. Open the 28th Infantry Regiment Battalions page.