The Guard seated here today · the 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry

The present establishment

South Bend's Guard home today is a battalion headquarters of the 38th Division: The Military Department of Indiana's own brigade page gives the home station of the 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment as South Bend, in the 76th Mobile Brigade Combat Team of the 38th Infantry Division — the brigade itself redesignated from the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in October 2025, its headquarters at Lawrence — and lists its South Bend elements as the battalion's Headquarters and Headquarters Company and Detachment 4, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 163rd Field Artillery, which supports the battalion; the battalion's rifle companies sit elsewhere in the northern tier, Company A at Gary and Company B at Logansport among them. The department's community listings tie the battalion to the Kemble Avenue armory directly — its Holistic Health and Fitness strength coach entry reads "South Bend — 2-151 IN" — and the Guard's recruiting station for the city stands at the same 1901 South Kemble Avenue address; the department also lists a second area Guard recruiting station just over the city line, at 1023 West Edison Road in Mishawaka, printed here as the boundary fact it is.

The 151st's lineage, in the Army's official record, runs to 24 June 1846, when the regiment was organized from existing companies as the 2nd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers; its service across the wars belongs to the Wars record. Two questions this section was asked to settle are answered here from the Guard's own record, plainly. The 152nd — whose founding muster of 1882 included the South Bend Veterans, above — has no South Bend element today: the regiment, redesignated the 1st Squadron, 152nd Cavalry, is seated in southern Indiana, its headquarters troop at New Albany. And the 113th Engineers, whose regiment rendezvoused at the South Bend armory in 1941, are seated at Gary as the 113th Engineer Battalion, with companies at Valparaiso, Franklin and Camp Atterbury and none at South Bend. The South Bend battalion of the present Guard is the 2-151st, and no other.

Sources:

1. Military Department of Indiana, "76th Mobile Brigade Combat Team" (in.gov) — the 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment, home station South Bend; Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2-151st Infantry, South Bend; Detachment 4, HHB, 1-163rd Field Artillery, South Bend; Company A, 2-151st Infantry, at Gary; the brigade under the 38th Infantry Division.
2. U.S. Army Center of Military History, lineage of the 151st Infantry (official lineage PDF, in.gov) — organized 24 June 1846 from existing companies as the 2nd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Indiana Brigade.
3. Military Department of Indiana, "Indiana National Guard in Your Community" (in.gov) — the H2F entry "South Bend — 2-151 IN" and the Kemble Avenue armory and recruiting listings.
4. 76th Mobile Brigade Combat Team organization as published February 2026 — the 1st Squadron, 152nd Cavalry Regiment at New Albany, headquarters and headquarters troop at New Albany, with no South Bend element; and U.S. Army (army.mil, December 2025) for the 113th Engineer Battalion's present stations, Gary, Valparaiso, Franklin and Camp Atterbury.