75th Infantry Regiment
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
The 75th Infantry Regiment is most famous today through the Ranger lineage that culminated in the modern 75th Ranger Regiment. Its identity is therefore unlike most of the surrounding numbered infantry regiments, because it is tied to elite light infantry, airborne operations, and special mission service rather than to conventional divisional infantry alone.
In the modern era, the 75th name became inseparable from Ranger battalions and then from the Ranger Regiment itself. That evolution made it one of the most recognizable infantry lineages in the entire Army, with service stretching from the Vietnam period into the post-9/11 wars.
The 75th Infantry thus stands out as a bridge between the Army's regimental lineage system and one of its most famous elite combat formations.
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 75th Infantry Regiment Battalions page.