Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 October 2015
2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment
- Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 18th Field Artillery
- Organized 1 June 1917 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- (18th Field Artillery assigned 12 November 1917 to the 3d Division)
- Inactivated 15 February 1922 at Camp Pike, Arkansas
- Activated 31 December 1922 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- (18th Field Artillery relieved 24 March 1913 from assignment to the 3d Division and assigned to the 9th Division; relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 6th Division; Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 3d Division; relieved 23 September 1932 from assignment to the 3d Division and assigned to the 2d Cavalry Division; relieved 1 July 1940 from assignment to the 2d Cavalry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1943 as Battery B, 685th Field Artillery Battalion
- Redesignated 9 August 1943 as Battery B, 18th Field Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 3 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 18th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Redesignated 25 June 1964 as the 2d Battalion, 18th Artillery
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Champagne-Marne
- Aisne-Marne
- St. Mihiel
- Meuse-Argonne
- Champagne 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Global War on Terrorism
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BASTOGNE
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- French Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star, World War I, Streamer embroidered CHAMPAGNE-MARNE and AISNE-MARNE
- French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered MONS
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History