Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 8 September 2016
3d Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment
- Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery, and element of the 10th Division
- Organized 11 August 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas
- Demobilized 4 February 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas
- Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery
- Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 14 February 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina
- Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California
- Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 30 April 1959 as Battery C, 29th Artillery, withdrawn from the Regular Army, and allotted to the Army Reserve
- Activated 1 June 1959 at Westminster, Maryland
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery
- Inactivated 16 September 1979 at Westminster, Maryland
- Withdrawn 1 April 1984 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; concurrently, redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado (organic elements constituted and activated)
- Battalion relieved 16 December 2004 from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division, and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as 3d Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Southwest Asia
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Governance
- National Resolution
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY
- Valorous Unit Award (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003-2004
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2010-2011
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History