Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 7th Field Artillery

Organized 15 July 1916 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

(7th Field Artillery assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expeditionary Division [later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division])

Inactivated 1 December 1934 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont

Activated 1 May 1939 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery C, 7th Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division

Consolidated 1 September 1958 with Battery C, 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (active) (organized in 1898), and consolidated unit redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Gun Battalion, 7th Artillery (organic elements constituted
12 August 1958 and activated 1 September 1958)

Reorganized and redesignated 25 November 1960 as the 3d Missile Battalion, 7th Artillery

Redesignated 20 August 1965 as the 3d Battalion, 7th Artillery

Redesignated (less former Battery C, 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion) 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, and inactivated in Germany (former Battery C, 7th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 3d Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery - hereafter separate lineage)

3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, assigned 16 July 1986 to the 25th Infantry Division, and activated at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment

Relieved 16 November 2005 from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division, and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

 

DECORATIONS

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2004-2005

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered LORRAINE-PICARDY

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE and MEUSE-ARGONNE

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered KASSERINE

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY

*French Medaille Militaire, Fourragere

*Belgian Fourragere 1940

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: