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