Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 October 2018

110th Information Operations Battalion
(Maryland Light Artillery)

  • Constituted 28 December 1915 in the Maryland National Guard as the Light Artillery Battery
  • Organized from Plattsburgh graduates and mustered into state service 29 December 1915 at Baltimore
  • Mustered into Federal service 5 July 1916; mustered out of Federal service 6 October 1916
  • Expanded April-July 1917 to form Batteries A, B, and C, Maryland Field Artillery
  • Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Consolidated 18 September 1917 with National Guard units from Maryland and the District of Columbia to form the 112th Field Artillery and assigned to the 29th Division
  • Redesignated 27 November 1917 as the 110th Field Artillery and remained assigned to the 29th Division
  • Demobilized 4 June 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 31 March 1925 in the Maryland National Guard as the 110th Field Artillery, with Headquarters at Pikesville, and assigned to the 29th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 3 February 1941 at home stations
  • Regiment broken up 28 February 1942 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: 1st and 2d Battalions as the 110th and 224th Field Artillery Battalions, respectively, elements of the 29th Infantry Division (remainder of regiment disbanded)
  • 110th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 6 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 25 November 1946 with Headquarters at Pikesville
  • 224th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 16 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 25 November 1946 with Headquarters at Pikesville
  • Headquarters, 110th Field Artillery (reconstituted 25 August 1945 in the Maryland National Guard) and the 110th and 224th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated 1 March 1959 to form the 110th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Howitzer Battalions, elements of the 29th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized 1 March 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 29th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized 21 January 1968 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 1 May 1972 as the 110th Field Artillery
  • Reorganized 1 April 1975 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 58th Infantry Brigade
  • Reorganized 1 July 1986 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 29th Infantry Division
  • Withdrawn 1 June 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
  • (2d Battalion ordered into active Federal service 30 March 2002 at home stations; released from active Federal service 29 March 2003 and reverted to state control)
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 110th Field Artillery Regiment
  • Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 2009 as the 110th Information Operations Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 29th Infantry Division
  • Location changed 1 September 2010 to Laurel
  • Consolidated 1 September 2014 with the Information Operations Field Support Unit (organized and Federally recognized 25 January 2002 at Laurel); consolidated unit designated as the 110th Information Operations Battalion, and location changed to Annapolis

HOME STATION: Annapolis

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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