Constituted 2 March 1899 in the Regular Army as Battery O, 7th Regiment of Artillery

Organized 19 March 1899 at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia

Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 16th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps

Reorganized and redesignated 31 May 1907 as Battery B, 5th Field Artillery

(5th Field Artillery assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expedition­ary Division [later redesignated as the 1st Division]; relieved in March 1921 from assignment to the 1st Division; assigned 1 January 1930 to the 1st Division [later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division])

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery B, 5th Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division

Redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Battalion activated 25 June 1958 in Germany

(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery, consoli­dated 26 August 1960 with Battery A, 5th Coast Artillery [organized in 1861], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquar­ters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery)

Redesignated 25 June 1964 as the 2d Battalion, 5th Artillery

Reorganized and redesignated (less former Battery A, 5th Coast Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (former Battery A, 5th Coast Artillery, concurrently redesignated as the 2d Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery ‑ hereafter separate lineage)

2d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, assigned 15 April 1983 to the 1st Infantry Division

Inactivated 15 August 1991 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division

Activated 26 May 1996 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

Civil War   Manassas   Antietam   Chancellorsville   Gettysburg   World War I *Montdidier-Noyon *Aisne-Marne *St. Mihiel *Meuse-Argonne *Lorraine 1917 *Lorraine 1918 *Picardy 1918

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

 

DECORATIONS

*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AL ANBAR PROVINCE 2003

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered LORRAINE-PICARDY

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE and MEUSE-ARGONNE

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered KASSERINE

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY

*French Medaille Militaire, Fourragere

*Belgian Fourragere 1940

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons

*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: