Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 May 2012
2d BATTALION,
69th ARMORED REGIMENT
- Constituted 15 July 1940 in the Regular Army as Company B, 69th Armored Regiment, an element of the 1st Armored Division
- Activated 31 July 1940 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Inactivated 10 January 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Activated 15 February 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky (69th Armored Regiment concurrently relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 6th Armored Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 September 1943 as Company B, 69th Tank Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 July 1945 as Company B, 69th Amphibian Tractor Battalion (69th Tank Battalion concurrently relieved from assignment to the 6th Armored Division)
- Inactivated 8 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Redesignated 21 August 1950 as Company B, 69th Medium Tank Battalion, an element of the 6th Armored Division
- Activated 5 September 1950 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Inactivated 16 March 1956 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- (69th Medium Tank Battalion relieved 1 February 1957 from assignment to the 6th Armored DIvision)
- Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Medium Tank Battalion, 69th Armor (organic elements concurrently constituted)
- Battalion assigned 8 July 1957 to the 10th Infantry Division and activated in Germany
- Relieved 14 June 1958 from assignment to the 10th Infantry Division and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division
- Inactivated 1 March 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 21 March 1973 as the 2d Battalion, 69th Armor, assigned to the 197th Infantry Brigade, and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Relieved 16 October 1991 from assignment to the 197th Infantry Brigade and assigned to the 24th Infantry Division
- Relieved 16 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
- Relieved 16 March 2004 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- *Normandy
- *Northern France
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes-Alsace
- *Central Europe
- Eastern Mandates
- Western Pacific (with arrowhead)
- Ryukyus (with arrowhead)
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Southwest Asia
- *Defense of Saudi Arabia
- *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered SAIPAN AND TINIAN
- Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered OKINAWA
- Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered WONJU-HWACHON
- *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered PANMUNJOM
- *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1994
- Company B additionally entitled to:
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered YUSUFIYAH, IRAQ
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History