How to request Regimental Affiliation?

Here's a little history on this - there used to be a time when there were multiple battalions/units within each regiment and they were dispersed across the world. The plan was for you to affiliate with a regiment (not a unit) and then you would PCS within the regiment to the different battalions/units. That has since been phased out and is no longer used. But, that was the original purpose of being regimentally affiliated.<div><br></div><div>Additionally, under the old classifications of Combat Arms, Combat Support and Combat Service Support, CS and CSS MOS's did not have different regiments to affiliate with, they were "automatically" affiliated with their branch specific "regiment".</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, Combat Arms MOS's were the ones that had the options to "choose" which regiment (not battalion/unit) that you wanted to affiliate. Some chose their first unit or if they had served with multiple regiments while some chose the "coolest" RDI.</div><div><br></div><div>Basically, as a CSM, I look at this as a way to carry on traditions and a way to teach regimental and branch history to our young folks. I encourage them all to look up the different regiments they are eligible for and find out which ones have the richest history or something that may be significant to them and then affiliate with that regiment.</div>

So you all might like to hear this, today (very out of the blue) I get an email from my company commander, basically forwarding the same information from my S-1, which stated S-1 will not process my request for affiliation due to not having a certificate attached to the 4187.