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1st Battalion
82d Field Artillery Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 February 2008

1st Battalion
82d Field Artillery Regiment Lineage

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Troops A and B, 24th Cavalry

Organized 5 June 1917 at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming

Consolidated, converted, and redesignated 1 November 1917 as Battery A, 82d Field Artillery, an element of the 15th Cavalry Division (82d Field Artillery relieved in May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 9 September 1921 as Battery A, 82d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 17 March 1930 as Battery A, 82d Field Artillery

Reorganized and redesignated 3 January 1941 as Battery A, 82d Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Japan, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division

Redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Missile Battalion, 82d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Battalion activated 24 June 1958 in Italy

Inactivated 20 April 1964 in Italy

Redesignated 31 October 1967 as the 1st Battalion, 82d Artillery

Assigned 10 January 1968 to the 23d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 82d Field Artillery

Relieved 30 November 1971 from assignment to the 23d Infantry Division

Assigned 21 June 1975 to the 1st Cavalry Division

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 82d Field Artillery Regiment

Relieved 18 October 2005 from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division

1st Battalion
82d Field Artillery Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: *New Guinea; *Bismark Archipelago; *Leyte (with arrowhead); *Luzon

Korean War: *UN Defensive; *UN Offensive; *CCF Intervention; *First UN Counteroffensive; *CCF Spring Offensive; *UN Summer-Fall Offensive; *Second Korean Winter

Vietnam: *Counteroffensive, Phase V; *Counteroffensive, Phase VI; *Tet 69/Counteroffensive; *Summer-Fall 1969; *Winter-Spring 1970; *Sanctuary Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase VII; *Consolidation I;

Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire

War on Terrorism: *Iraq

Decorations

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991

*Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

*Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA

*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered WAEGWAN-TAEGU

*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970

*Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971


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