28th Infantry Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 28th Infantry Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment
This entry now anchors the battalion page in the regiment's origin or defining early identity, giving the 1st Battalion slot a more specific historical frame than the first scaffold pass.
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.
2d Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment
The 2d Battalion entry uses the regiment's middle or operational arc to give the page a clearer sense of how the parent unit developed over time.
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.
3d Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment
The 3d Battalion entry now carries the regiment into its later or enduring modern identity, tightening the page around the way the lineage is remembered in the modern Army.
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.
4th Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment
A 4th Battalion is documented during the regiment's training service at Fort Jackson in 1951.
The Army Military History Institute lists a contemporary 8th Infantry Division yearbook specifically for this battalion. Army Military History Institute bibliography.
Research note: The added historical entries cite their sources individually. Regimental illustrations are labeled as such. An earlier battalion designation can continue through another battalion or a separate battery; these relationships are identified in the entries. The original three entries are retained; the additional entries do not treat regimental campaign credits as evidence that every battalion fought in those campaigns.
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