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Lineage and Honors Information as of 5 April 2011

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31st FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT

 

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 31st Field Artillery and assigned to the 11th Division

Organized 6 August 1918 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland

Relieved 30 September 1918 from assignment to the 11th Division

Demobilized 9 December 1918 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland

Reconstituted 22 July 1929 in the Regular Army as the 31st Field Artillery and assigned to the 2d Division

Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 2d Division

Assigned 1 July 1940 to the 7th Division (later redesignated as the 7th Infantry Division) and activated at Camp Ord, California

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 31st Field Artillery Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as the 31st Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 31st Field Artillery

 Withdrawn 16 March 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System, reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System, and transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 31st Field Artillery Regiment

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War II
Aleutian Islands
Eastern Mandates
Leyte
Ryukyus

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

 

DECORATIONS

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered INCHON

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950‑1953

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1945‑1948, 1953‑1957

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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