Lineage and Honors Information as of 28 April 2017
2d Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment
(Automatic Eight)
- Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 8th Field Artillery
- Organized 7 July 1916 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- (8th Field Artillery assigned 6 December 1917 to the 7th Division; relieved 1 March 1921 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the Hawaiian Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1941 as Battery B, 8th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 25th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 1 February 1957 in Hawaii and relieved from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 8th Artillery, assigned to the 7th Infantry Division, and activated in Korea (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Redesignated 1 July 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 8th Artillery
- Inactivated 2 April 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 8th Field Artillery
- Activated 21 April 1975 at Fort Ord, California
- Relieved 16 August 1995 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division and assigned to the 25th Infantry Division
- Relieved 27 July 2005 from assignment to the 25th Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment
- Inactivated 1 June 2006 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Activated 16 December 2006 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Central Pacific
- Guadalcanal
- Luzon
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Sovereignty
- Iraqi Surge
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered TAEGU
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SANGNYONG-NI
- Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered WONJU-HWACHON
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered NINEVEH PROVINCE 2005
- Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered PANMUNJOM
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for MASAN-CHINJU
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for MUNSAN-NI
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA, 1957-1971
- Battery A additionally entitled to:
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996-1997
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History