Battery B
25th Field Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 1996
Battery B
25th Field Artillery Lineage
Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery B, 25th Field Artillery, an element of the 9th Division
Organized 2 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Demobilized 8 February 1919 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Reconstituted 22 December 1920 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 25th Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts)
Organized 26 September 1921 at Fort William McKinley, Philippine Islands, as an element of the Philippine Division
Inactivated 30 September 1922 at Fort Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands
(25th Field Artillery relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the Philippine Division and assigned to the 9th Division [Philippine Scouts] concurrently removed as a parenthetical designation; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 9th Division)
Absorbed 30 December 1940 by Battery B, 25th Field Artillery Battalion (active) (Battery E, 25th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 30 December 1940 as Battery B, 25th Field Artillery Battalion; inactivated 21 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey; 25th Field Artillery Battalion redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 25th Field Artillery Battery and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia; former Battery B, 25th Field Artillery Battalion, redesignated 29 November 1949 as Battery B, 25th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, and consolidated with Battery B, 25th Field Artillery Battalion [active], an element of the 10th Infantry Division)
Former Battery B, 25th Field Artillery, reconstituted 1 July 1957 in the Regular Army
Redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Observation Battalion, 25th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion activated 25 June 1958 in Germany
Reorganized and redesignated 23 September 1961 as the 2d Target Acquisition Battalion, 25th Artillery
Redesignated 15 April 1968 as the 2d Battalion, 25th Artillery
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 25th Field Artillery
Inactivated 20 September 1978 in Germany
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 25th Field Artillery, redesignated 1 April 1984 as Battery B, 25th Field Artillery, assigned to the 1st Armored Division, and activated in Germany
Relieved 16 May 1992 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
Relieved 16 February 1996 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division
Battery B
25th Field Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II-EAME: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA