Night Fighters

The 1-414th Infantry Regiment is currently a Drill Sergeant Unit headquartered in Eugene, Oregon. Also known as the "Night Fighters" because the First Battalion 414th Infantry was well trained and an innovator in the newly implemented "night fighting" tactics of World War 2. According to the book "The Timberwolves: The Story of the 104th Infantry Division" the 1-414th distinguished themselves when they crept through a forest to surprise the enemy on November 18, 1944.
No longer part of the 104th Infantry Division aka "Timberwolves" the Battalion was reassigned to the 95th Division as part of the transformation of the Army Reserve from a strategic reserve to an operational reserve force. The 95th Infantry Division also known as "Iron Men of Metz" is primarily responsible for an "initial entry training" and was the purpose of assigning the 1-414th's Drill Sergeants to the 95th.

In 2009/2010 elements of the 1-414th were mobilized to Fort Knox

Fort Knox

Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet...

 Kentucky to conduct Basic Training for a period of one year thus continuing a long heritage of service to the United States during time of war.

Symbolism

The shield is blue for Infantry

Infantry

Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...

. The dancette partition line represents the mountainous character of the State of Idaho

Idaho

Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

 from which state the personnel of the regiment were originally drawn. The wavy partition line represents Snake River

Snake River

The Snake is a major river of the greater Pacific Northwest in the United States. At long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean...

, which runs across the southern and western portions of the state.

Lineage

• Constituted June 24, 1921 as the 414th Infantry and assigned to the 104th Division, later redesignated as the 104th Infantry Division.

• Organized in December 1921 with Headquarters at Pocatello, Idaho
  Pocatello, Idaho
  Pocatello is the county seat and largest city of Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the Pocatello metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Bannock...
  
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• Ordered into active military service September 15, 1942 and reorganized at Camp Adair
  Camp Adair
  Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon, operating from 1942 to 1946. Part of the site is now contained within the E. E...
  
  , near what is now Adair Village, Oregon
  Adair Village, Oregon
  Adair Village is a city in Benton County, Oregon, United States. The population was 840 at the 2010 census, It is part of the "Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area".-History:...
  
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• Inactivated December 11, 1945 at Camp San Luis Obispo
  Camp San Luis Obispo
  Camp San Luis Obispo is the original home of the California Army National Guard. It served as an Infantry Division Camp and Cantonment Area for the United States Army during World War II.-History:...
  
  , California.

• Activated March 25, 1947 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Los Angeles, California.

• Reorganized and redesignated June 10, 1959 as the 414th Regiment, an element of the 104th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Salem, Oregon
  Salem, Oregon
  Salem is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood...
  
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• Reorganized January 10 - February 29, 1968 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalion
  Battalion
  A battalion is a military unit of around 300–1,200 soldiers usually consisting of between two and seven companies and typically commanded by either a Lieutenant Colonel or a Colonel...
  
  s, elements of the 104th Division (Training).

• Reorganized April 16, 1995 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 104th Division (Institutional Training).

• Reorganized September 16, 1995 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 104th Division (Institutional Training)

• Reorganized October 16 - November 16, 1996 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 104th Division (Institutional Training)