71st Infantry Regiment
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
The 71st Infantry Regiment belongs to the Army's modern-era lineage structure and reflects the service's practice of maintaining additional numbered regiments for expansion and organizational flexibility. It is part of the institutional depth behind the Army's better-known combat formations.
Its lineage was preserved through the Army's system of redesignations and selective activations rather than through one uninterrupted field career as a classic regiment. That pattern is common among the higher-numbered infantry lineages of the twentieth century.
The 71st Infantry therefore helps illustrate how the Army balanced force growth with long-term historical continuity.
Battalion Page
A dedicated battalion subpage now collects the regiment's known battalion icons and short battalion sketches for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions. Open the 71st Infantry Regiment Battalions page.