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The 3rd US Infantry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. The regiment bears the nickname The Old Guard, and is the oldest infantry regiment in the army, having been constituted in 1784 as the 1st American Regiment. The regiment currently has two battalions: The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...
1st Battalion - The 1st Battalion currently serves as part of the Military District of Washington as part of the defence of the National Capital Region. In this role it takes part in NBC operations, area security and control of civil disturbances. However, the battalion is also designated as the representatives of the entire US Army on major ceremonial occasions - it is Honor Guard to the President, and has reponsibility for guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and as the foremost Color Guards in the service. As the Presidential Guard it provides both the principal body of garrison troops in Washington and the main protective security for the President.
2nd Battalion - The 2nd Battalion currently serves as one of three infantry battalions in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the US 2nd Infantry Division.
When Staff Sgt. Kara Nightingale was 13 years old, she attended a fife and drum muster at Millbrook, N.Y. For the first time in her life, she saw a performance by the Army’s Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, known by the fife and drum community as the world’s finest fife and drum performers.
The 3rd U.S. InfantryRegiment (The Old Guard) Fife and Drum Corps is a group of musicians who play the fife, bugle and drums in ceremonies at Fort Myer and around the national capital region.
The corps also travels throughout the UnitedStates in support of public affairs missions for the Army.
The 65th InfantryRegiment, comprised primarily of Puerto Ricans, began as a volunteer regiment in 1899 and participated in WWI and WWII.
The story of the 65th InfantryRegiment is one of valor, tragedy, sacrifice and brothers in arms.
The 65th InfantryRegiment distinguished themselves during the Korean War in the battles for the Chorwan Reservoir, the Evacuation of Hungnam and the Chinese counter offensive of April 1951.
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