The Guard lineage carried to the present unit: the 151st in South Bend, the 293rd tested

1846 – November 2026

The county's present Guard unit is infantry, and its line is the 151st: the battalion stationed in South Bend today is the 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment, an element of the 76th Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 38th Infantry Division, with its Headquarters and Headquarters Company in South Bend, a forward support company (Company J, 113th Light Support Battalion) attached in South Bend, and a supporting artillery detachment (Detachment 4, 1st Battalion, 163rd Field Artillery) in South Bend. The regiment's lineage, in the Army's Lineage and Honors statement and the Guard's own history, runs in succession: organized 24 June 1846 from existing independent companies as the 2nd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and mustered into federal service for the Mexican War; the central and southern Indiana companies consolidated and mustered again in April 1861 as the 7th, 10th and 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, carrying twenty-four Civil War campaign credits; reorganized in 1882 in the Indiana Legion; renamed with the Guard in 1895; reorganized in 1900 as the First Infantry, Indiana National Guard; carried through the two World Wars in the 38th Division; and organized since 1977 as two battalions of the 151st, of which the 2nd Battalion holds the South Bend station. The audit's test case, the 293rd Infantry — the “Nightfighters,” 1st Battalion, 293rd Infantry, Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Kuwait and Iraq in 2003 as the first Guard infantry battalion alerted for ground combat since Korea — is tested and placed: its home station is Fort Wayne, its companies sit in Fort Wayne, Hartford City, Angola and Bluffton, and no element of the 293rd has ever been stationed in St. Joseph County. The designations in succession for this county are therefore the 151st's, printed above; township membership in the South Bend battalion is individual, not corporate — the two townships furnish soldiers, not a named company, in the present order of battle as published.

From the Indiana National Guard's 76th Mobile Brigade Combat Team page (in.gov) for the present stations, the U.S. Army Center of Military History Lineage and Honors statement for the 151st Infantry, and the Guard's published regimental history. The 293rd's stations are the same brigade page's Fort Wayne listing.