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129th Field Artillery Regiment
(Truman's Own)

  • Constituted 22 November 1866 in the Missouri Militia and organized at Kansas City as the Kansas City Guards
  • Disbanded in April 1873 at Kansas City
  • Reconstituted 18 November 1887 in the Missouri National Guard and reorganized at Kansas City as the Kansas City Light Battery
  • Redesignated 18 December 1888 as Battery B
  • Disbanded 6 November 1899 at Kansas City
  • Reconstituted 14 June 1905 in the Missouri National Guard and reorganized at Kansas City as Battery B
  • Consolidated 4 February 1915 with Battery A (organized 15 January 1878 at St. Louis) and Battery C (see ANNEX) to form the 1st Separate Battalion, Field Artillery
  • Mustered into Federal service 25 June 1916 at Nevada; mustered out of Federal service 21-22 December 1916 at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • (Battery D organized 5 June 1917 at Kansas City; Battery A detached 6 June 1917 from the 1st Separate Battalion, Field Artillery – hereafter separate lineage; Battery D concurrently redesignated as Battery A, 1st Separate Battalion, Field Artillery)
  • 1st Separate Battalion, Field Artillery, expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 29 June 1917 as the 2d Field Artillery
  • Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Redesignated 1 October 1917 as the 129th Field Artillery and assigned to the 35th Division
  • Demobilized 6 May 1919 at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Reconstituted 27 June 1946 in the Missouri National Guard as the 129th Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 35th Infantry Division
  • Organized and Federally recognized 20 October 1947 with Headquarters at Maryville
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1959 as the 129th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st Howitzer Battalion, an element of the 35th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st Howitzer Battalion
  • Reorganized 15 January 1968 to consist of the 1st Battalion
  • Redesignated 1 March 1972 as the 129th Field Artillery
  • Withdrawn 1 June 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
  • (1st Battalion ordered into active Federal service 13 March 2004 at home stations; released from active Federal service 12 March 2005 and reverted to state control)
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 129th Field Artillery Regiment
  • (1st Battalion ordered into active Federal service 8 April 2008 at home stations; released from active Federal service 12 May 2009 and reverted to state control)
  • ANNEX
  • Organized 26 June 1886 in the Missouri National Guard at Independence as Company F, 3d Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 14 May 1898 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, as Company F, 3d Missouri Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 7 November 1898 at Kansas City and reverted to state control as Company F, 3d Infantry
  • Converted and redesignated 23 November 1914 as Battery C

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Alsace 1918
  • Lorraine 1918

Headquarters Battery (Maryville) and Battery A (Albany), 1st Battalion, each additionally entitled to:

  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

Battery B (Chillicothe), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:

  • World War II
  • Aleutian Islands

Decorations

  • Battery B (Chillicothe), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN MAR 2007- MAR 2008
  • Battery D (Independence), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2003-2005

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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