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2d Battalion, 2d Field Artillery Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2007

2d Battalion, 2d Field Artillery Regiment Lineage

Constituted 13 February 1901 in the Regular Army as the 18th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps

Organized 20 June 1901 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California

Reorganized and redesignated 6 June 1907 as Battery B, 2d Field Artillery

(2d Field Artillery assigned 31 January 1918 to the 8th Division; relieved 5 September 1919 from assignment to the 8th Division)

Inactivated 2 February 1922 at Camp Bragg, North Carolina

Activated 1 August 1922 at Camp Bragg, North Carolina, as an element of the 4th Division

Inactivated 5 September 1927 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Division

(2d Field Artillery assigned 17 March 1930 to the Panama Canal Division)

Consolidated 30 April 1930 with Battery B, 2d Field Artillery Battalion (active) (constituted 1 September 1927 in the Regular Army and activated at Fort Davis, Canal Zone), and consolidated unit designated as Battery B, 2d Field Artillery

(2d Field Artillery relieved 15 April 1932 from assignment to the Panama Canal Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 13 January 1941 as Battery B, 2d Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 29 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Redesignated 20 January 1948 as Battery B, 2d Rocket Field Artillery Battalion

Redesignated 31 July 1949 as Battery B, 2d Field Artillery Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 2d Artillery (organic elements constituted 2 June 1958 and activated 25 June 1958)

(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 2d Artillery, consolidated 15 December 1961 with Battery B, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion [organized in 1812], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 2d Artillery)

Redesignated 15 March 1968 as the 2d Battalion, 2d Artillery

Reorganized and redesignated (less former Battery B, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion) 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 2d Field Artillery (former Battery B, 2d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, concurrently redesignated as the 2d Battalion, 2d Air Defense Artillery — hereafter separate lineage)

2d Battalion, 2d Field Artillery, inactivated 1 April 1980 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Activated 1 August 1981 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Headquarters transferred 2 October 1991 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and reorganized at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (remainder of battalion concurrently inactivated)

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

2d Battalion, 2d Field Artillery Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Philippine Insurrection: *Jolo 1903; *Jolo 1904; *Jolo 1905

World War I: *Streamer without inscription

World War II: *Northern France; *Rhineland; *Central Europe

Decorations

None


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