72nd Infantry Regiment
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
The 72nd Infantry Regiment was one of the numbered lineages maintained in the Army's twentieth-century force structure. It reflects the broader shift from a small permanent regular establishment to a much deeper and more flexible institutional Army.
Like several neighboring regiments in this range, its story is more about preserved identity and organizational continuity than about an uninterrupted independent combat record. The regiment's name remained part of the Army's lineage system even as force structures changed.
That makes the 72nd Infantry part of the larger architecture of Army mobilization history.
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 72nd Infantry Regiment Battalions page.