The 61st Infantry, less the 3rd Battalion, was subsequently affiliated with the University of Kentucky Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program and organized about June 1927 as a "Regular Army Inactive" (RAI) unit at Lexington, Kentucky, with Regular Army personnel assigned to the ROTC detachment and Reserve officers commissioned from the program.

[3] Where it took part in Operation Montana Mauler on the Khe Sanh plateau in 1969,[3] and the United States invasion of Panama in 1989.

[4] The 1st Battalion, 61st Infantry Regiment, nicknames the "Roadrunners,” is currently a Basic Combat Training (BCT) unit within the U.S. Army.

A silver color metal and enamel device 1 3/32 inches (2.78 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Azure, a pale wavy Argent charged with a fusil Gules, on a canton embattled of the second a field gun of the third on a mount Vert.

This regiment was organized in June 1917 from the 7th Infantry and participated in World War I in the 5th Division, the insignia of which is carried on the shield.

Blazon Symbolism- This regiment was organized in June 1917 from the 7th Infantry and participated in World War I in the 5th Division, the insignia of which is carried on the shield and also the crest.