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2d Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment

  • Constituted 15 July 1940 in the Regular Army as Company B, 70th Tank Battalion, and activated at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
  • Inactivated 1 June 1946 in Germany
  • Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
  • Reorganized and redesignated 14 June 1948 as Company B, 70th Medium Tank Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 31 December 1948 as Company B, 70th Heavy Tank Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1950 as Company B, 70th Tank Battalion
  • (70th Tank Battalion assigned 10 November 1951 to the 1st Cavalry Division)
  • Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division
  • Redesignated 21 January 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 70th Armor (organic elements concurrently constituted)
  • Battalion assigned 1 February 1963 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated in Germany
  • Inactivated 15 April 1970 at Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas
  • Activated 21 July 1977 at Fort Stewart, Georgia
  • Inactivated 15 October 1987 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division
  • Assigned 16 December 1987 to the 1st Armored Division and activated in Germany
  • Relieved 17 January 1992 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 15 December 1993 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
  • Assigned 16 February 1996 to the 1st Armored Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment
  • Relieved 16 April 2007 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
  • Inactivated 15 March 2008 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
  • Assigned 16 October 2014 to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Algeria-French Morocco
  • Sicily (with arrowhead)
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • 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
  • (Campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COTENTIN PENINSULA
  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HURTGEN FOREST
  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1991
  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
  • Belgian Fourragere 1940
  • Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for actions in Belgium
  • Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
  • Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered TAEGU
  • Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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