80th Regiment

Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 155th Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 80th Division
Organized in September 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia
Demobilized 2 June 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 155th Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 80th Division
Organized in December 1922 at Washington, D.C.
Reorganized and redesignated 12 February 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 80th Division Artillery
Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Forrest, Tennessee
Inactivated 5 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 15 July 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 80th Airborne Division Artillery
Activated 12 March 1947 in the Organized Reserves at Richmond, Virginia
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 10 May 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 80th Division Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 6 March 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 80th Regiment, an element of the 80th Division (Training), and location changed to Norfolk, Virginia (organic elements concurrently organized as new units)
Regiment reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Training)
Reorganized 1 April 1971 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Training)
Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Institutional Training)
Reorganized 13 January 1995 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Institutional Training)
Reorganized 16 October - 16 November 1996 to consist of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Battalions, elements of the 80th Division (Institutional Training)
Elements ordered into active military service in support of the War on Terrorism
(10th and 11th Battalions relieved 1 October 2006 from assignment to the 80th Division [Institutional Training])
(10th and 11th Battalions assigned 16 January 2008 to the 104th Division [Institutional Training] [redesignated 16 September 2009 as the 104th Training Division])
(9th Battalion inactivated 15 June 2008)
(1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions relieved 16 September 2008 from assignment to the 80th Division [Institutional Training])
(6th Battalion inactivated 30 September 2008)
(1st, 2d, 4th Battalion assigned 1 December 2008 to the 102d Training Division, the 3d Battalion to the 100th Training Division, and the 5th, 7th and 8th Battalions to the 94th Training Division)
(10th and 11th Battalions relieved from assignment to the 104th Training Division; concurrently 11th Battalion assigned to 78th Training Division)
(11th Battalion inactivated 15 January 2014)

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I
Meuse-Argonne
World War II
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Richard W. Stewart, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History