79th Field Artillery
Lineage and Honors Information as of 7 October 1996
79th Field Artillery Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 21st Cavalry
Organized 1 June 1917 at Fort Riley, Kansas
Converted and redesignated 1 November 1917 as the 79th Field Artillery
Assigned 6 December 1917 to the 7th Division
Inactivated 14 September 1921 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland, and relieved from assignment to the 7th Division
Assigned 1 January 1930 to the 7th Division
Relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 7th Division
(1st Battalion activated 1 June 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina)
Regiment (less 1st Battalion) activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Regiment broken up 23 February 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 79th Field Artillery Group
1st Battalion as the 697th Field Artillery Battalion
2d Battalion as the 698th Field Artillery Battalion
After 23 February 1943 the above units underwent changes as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 79th Field Artillery Group, inactivated 30 June 1946 in Germany
697th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 12 February 1946
at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 555th Field Artillery Battalion
Activated 1 January 1949 in Korea
Assigned 10 October 1954 to the 71st Infantry Division
Inactivated 15 September 1956 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Relieved 16 July 1957 from assignment to the 71st Infantry Division
698th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 14 February 1946
at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 567th Field Artillery Battalion
Activated 20 March 1951 at Camp Polk, Louisiana
Inactivated 16 January 1956 in Germany
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 79th Field Artillery Group, and the 555th and 567th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 16 July 1957 as the 79th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 79th Field Artillery
Withdrawn 16 August 1995 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System; concurrently assigned to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
79th Field Artillery Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Streamer without inscription
World War II: Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Normandy; Northern France; 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
Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for LONG BINH