Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 3 April 2012
2d BATTALION,
30th INFANTRY REGIMENT
- Constituted 2 February 1901 in the Regular Army as Company B, 30th Infantry
- Organized 16 March 1901 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California
- (30th Infantry assigned 21 November 1917 to the 3d Division; relieved 12 January 1940 from assignment to the 3d Division; assigned 15 May 1940 to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division]; relieved 6 April 1951 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; assigned 2 December 1954 to the 3d Infantry Division)
- Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 3 January 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 30th Infantry (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battle Group activated 22 January 1958 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 30th Infantry, and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
- Inactivated 16 June 1989 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 January 2005 to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, and activated at Fort Polk, Louisiana
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- Philippine Insurrection
- Mindoro 1901
- World War I
- *Aisne
- *Champagne-Marne
- *Aisne-Marne
- *St. Mihiel
- *Meuse-Argonne
- *Champagne 1918
- World War II
- *Algeria-French Morocco
- (with arrowhead)
- *Tunisia
- *Sicily (with arrowhead)
- *Naples-Foggia
- *Anzio (with arrowhead)
- *Rome-Arno
- *Southern France (with arrowhead)
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes-Alsace
- *Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Afghanistan:
- *Consolidation II
- Iraq:
- *Iraqi Surge
- *Iraqi Sovereignty
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SICILY
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MOUNT ROTUNDO
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BESANCON, FRANCE
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD 2007-2009
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered CHAMPAGNE-MARNE
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History