38th Infantry Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
This second-pass battalion page ties each battalion icon more directly to the parent regiment's established story. Until a battalion-by-battalion lineage research pass is completed, the copy below should be read as regiment-specific context rather than as a final battalion lineage sheet.
1st Battalion, 38th 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 38th Infantry Regiment was organized in 1917 and became one of the recognizable lineages of the modern Army's divisional era. Its history is closely connected with combat service in the world wars and later in Korea, where regimental identities were preserved through divisional action.
2d Battalion, 38th 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.
The regiment is especially associated with the 2d Infantry Division and later battalion lineages that kept the history alive after the old regimental system was broken up. Like many early twentieth-century regiments, it was shaped less by nineteenth-century frontier duty and more by large-scale industrial warfare.
3d Battalion, 38th 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 38th Infantry therefore stands as a regiment of the world-war generation: created for modern mass warfare, tested in mid-century conflict, and preserved later through battalion heritage.
Research note: This second pass replaces the generic scaffold text with regiment-specific context drawn from the parent regiment page. Dedicated battalion-level lineage research is still deferred to a later pass.