1st Battalion
9th Field Artillery
(The Mighty Ninth)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 November 2009
1st Battalion
9th Field Artillery Lineage
Constituted 15 September 1927 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 9th Field Artillery, an element of the 9th Division
(9th Field Artillery relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 4th Division)
Activated 30 April 1930 at Fort Lewis, Washington
(9th Field Artillery relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division])
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 9th Field Artillery Battalion
(9th Field Artillery Battalion relieved 1 September 1950 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; reassigned 17 January 1951 to the 3d Infantry Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Artillery, an element of the 3d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Redesignated 1 April 1960 as the 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 9th Artillery
Redesignated 3 June 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 9th Artillery
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery
Inactivated 14 July 1972 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
Activated 17 January 1986 in Germany
Inactivated 30 June 1991 in Germany
Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 3d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
Relieved 16 March 2004 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment
1st Battalion
9th Field Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
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
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
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for IRAQ 2003
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for IRAQ 2005-2006
*Army Superior Unit Award for 1986
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COLMAR
*French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
*Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for IRON TRIANGLE