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179th Infantry Regiment | |
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Active | 1890-present |
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Type | Infantry |
Role | Light infantry |
Size | Battalion |
Garrison/HQ | Stillwater, Oklahoma |
Nickname(s) | Tomahawks (special designation) [1] |
Motto(s) | "In Omina Paratus" (In All Things Prepared) |
Colors | Blue and silver (white) |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | William Orlando Darby Michael S. Davison (1st Battalion) |
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The 179th Infantry Regiment ("Tomahawks" [1] ) is an infantry regiment of the United States Army's National Guard.
Currently, the 1st Battalion is the only active battalion in the regiment and is organized as a combined arms battalion under the brigade unit of action table of organization and equipment. The battalion is an organic element of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Oklahoma Army National Guard.
The unit that would become the 179th Infantry was first constituted on 2 May 1890 in the Oklahoma Volunteer Militia as the 1st Infantry Regiment. It was organized on 21 December 1895 from new and existing militia companies, with the regimental headquarters at Guthrie, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Volunteer Militia was concurrently redesignated as the Oklahoma National Guard.
Volunteers and militiamen from the Arizona and New Mexico territories were consolidated to form the 1st Regiment, Territorial Volunteer Infantry, United States Volunteers, and were mustered into federal service from 4–23 July 1898. The regiment was mustered out of federal service from 11–15 February 1899 at Albany, Georgia. The former 1st Infantry Regiment, Oklahoma National Guard, was reorganized in 1899 as the 1st Regiment of Infantry, with headquarters at Guthrie.
The 1st Infantry Regiment was mustered into federal service on 27 June 1916 for service during the Pancho Villa Expedition, and mustered out of federal service on 1 March 1917 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. It was called into federal service pn 31 March 1917, and drafted into federal service on 5 August 1917. The regiment was consolidated on 15 October 1917 with the 7th Infantry, Texas National Guard, and the consolidated unit was redesignated as the 142nd Infantry, an element of the 36th Division.
The 142nd Infantry arrived at the port of New York on 31 May 1919 on the cruiser USS Pueblo and was demobilized on 17 June 1919 at Camp Bowie, Texas. Central Oklahoma companies formerly part of the 142nd Infantry were reorganized by consolidation in 1920–21 with the 2nd Infantry, Oklahoma National Guard (organized 31 August 1918; headquarters concurrently organized and federally recognized at Oklahoma City). The 142nd Infantry became an all-Texas unit in the 36th Division, and the Oklahoma infantry regiment was assigned to the new 45th Infantry Division and redesignated as the 179th Infantry on 14 October 1921.
The regimental headquarters was successively relocated as follows: to Ardmore, Oklahoma, 5 May 1925; Pawnee, Oklahoma, 23 May 1930; Oklahoma City, 1 September 1940. The entire regiment, or elements thereof, was called up to perform the following state duties: 1st Battalion performed martial law during the Tulsa race massacre, 1–12 June 1921; an ad-hoc battalion of four companies performed riot control during a railroad strike at Shawnee, Oklahoma, 9–25 August 1922; elements performed martial law duties throughout Oklahoma in connection with heavy floods, 13 September–8 October 1923; 1st Battalion performed oil well disaster relief at Oklahoma City, 30 October–1 November 1930. The regiment conducted annual summer training most years at Fort Sill, 1921–39. It was inducted into active federal service at home stations on 16 September 1940 and moved to Fort Sill, where it arrived 26 September 1940. It was subsequently transferred on 28 February 1941 to Camp Barkeley, Texas. [2]
1st Battalion is a subordinate unit of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, headquartered in Edmond, Oklahoma. The battalion commands six companies. These units are:
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Global War On Terrorism
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom
Additionally, the following units are entitled to the Meritorious Unit Citation
Per DAGO 208-11 (Corrected Copy) (2011) [6]
Per DAGO 2009-23 (2009) [7]
This article incorporates public domain material from 179th Infantry Regiment. United States Army Institute of Heraldry.