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Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 April 2011

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2d BATTALION,
82d FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT

 

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Troops C and D, 24th Cavalry

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

Consoli­dated, converted, and redesignated 1 November 1917 as Battery B, 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 B, 82d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division

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

Reorganized and redesignated 3 January 1941 as Battery B, 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, 2d Missile Battalion, 82d Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Battalion activated 25 June 1958 in Germany

Inactivated 25 March 1964 in Germany

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Missile Battalion, 82d Field Artillery

Redesignated 16 January 1988 as the 2d Battalion, 82d Field Artillery, assigned to the 3d Armored Division, and activated in Germany

Inactivated 15 November 1991 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division

Assigned 16 December 1992 to the 1st Cavalry Division and activated at Fort Hood, Texas

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 82d Field Artillery Regiment

Relieved 18 October 2005 from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  World War II
*New Guinea
*Bismarck 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

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

               War on Terrorism
                 Iraq:
            *National Resolution
            *Iraqi Surge

            (Additional campaigns to be determined)

DECORATIONS

*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ-KUWAIT 1991

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), IRAQ 2004-2005

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), IRAQ 2006-2007

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), IRAQ 2008-2009

*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

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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