The regiment conducts forced entry parachute assaults to seize, retain, and defend airfields or other assets, then increases combat power in order to control land, people, and resources.

The 325th Infantry Regiment was activated in the National Army on 25 August 1917, almost five months after the American entry into World War I.

Under the command of Colonel Walter M. Whitman, a professional Regular Army officer, the regiment, which was composed of large numbers of wartime volunteers and conscripts, also known as draftees, trained at Camp Gordon, Georgia as part of the 164th Infantry Brigade of the 82nd Division.

The cadre was intended to train the many hundreds of new conscripts, most of whom recently called up and were very young and had had no prior military service, who would soon be entering the camp.

After a brief rest, the regiment returned to the line to participate in the offensive to reduce the St. Mihiel salient, securing the southern shoulder of the breach.

Following the Armistice of 11 November 1918, the regiment returned to the United States aboard the USS Alaskan and was demobilized on 18 May 1919 at Camp Upton, New York.

[2] The 325th Infantry Regiment was reconstituted in the Organized Reserve on 24 June 1921, assigned to the 82nd Division, and allotted to the Fourth Corps Area.

[3] The 325th Infantry was ordered into active military service during World War II on 25 March 1942, forming under the command of Colonel Claudius M. Easley at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana.

It was not, however, by glider but by landing craft After service in the Italian campaign, the regiment deployed to England and conducted further training in preparation for Operation Overlord.

[2] Committed to another glider-borne assault in September 1944, the regiment fought in Holland as part of Operation Market Garden and later saw service in the Battle of the Bulge under Colonel Charles Billingslea.

Sent with the mission of relieving marines and evacuating civilians, the regiment swept from the San Isidro Air Base into the capital city of Santo Domingo, neutralizing rebel forces.

When the army's regimental system began affiliating separate units with existing regiments The 1-509th based in Vicenza Italy was re-flagged as the 4-325 Airborne Battalion Combat Team (ABCT) Part of the NATO's Southern European Task Force (SETAF) In June 1986 The 4-325 began to rotate to Ft Bragg NC as the 3-325 rotated to Italy to assume the duties of the ABCT.

While reinforcements streamed into the country, the 325th along with the remainder of the 82nd Airborne Division conducted the most intensive combat trainup in the unit's history.

On 22 February, a day before the official start of the ground war - Task Force Falcon which comprised the 2-325[4] and attached elements of the XVIII Airborne Corps along with soldiers of the French 6th Light Armored Brigade began their drive into Iraq and were responsible for the destruction of massive amounts of enemy weapons, equipment, and ammunition.

On 19 April 1991, the 3-325 ABCT, stationed in Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy and attached to the Southern European Task Force (SETAF), commanded by Lt. Col. (later General) John P. Abizaid, deployed to Northern Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort to secure from the 36th parallel to the northern border of Iraq and protect the Kurdish population from Saddam Hussein's brutality.

The 3-325's effort to secure the Kurds over a large expanse of territory during Operation Provide Comfort earned the battalion a Joint Meritorious Unit Award.

The unit only lost one soldier in Provide Comfort, Specialist Lars Chew, attached to the recon squad, who was killed in a landmine incident.

Following the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush called upon the American military to fight global terrorism.

During the initial invasion, the regiment was ordered to attack into the town of Samawah to seize four critical bridges over the Euphrates River.

Missions continued until February 2004, when, after almost a year of sustained combat operations, the regiment returned home to Fort Bragg.

With violence in Iraq escalating out of control, the President on 10 January announced a new strategy involving an increase of forces and a new emphasis on counter-insurgency tactics.

Over the next 15 months, the 325th moved into small outposts throughout the city and waged an aggressive campaign against Al Qaeda terrorists, Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias, and other elements committed to destroying the fragile Iraqi democracy.

In May 2011 the 325th deployed to Iraq, over the next 8 months the brigade conducted combat operations and close out of American footholds from Haditha, Ramadi and Baghdad.

In January 2017, Task Force Falcon comprising approximately 1,700 soldiers deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.