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1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment

  • Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 38th Field Artillery, an element of the 13th Division
  • Organized 17 August 1918 at Camp Lewis, Washington
  • Demobilized 10 February 1919 at Camp Lewis, Washington
  • Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 38th Field Artillery
  • Redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 38th Field Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as an element of the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division)
  • Inactivated 4 March 1958 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 31 March 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 38th Artillery
  • Redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Missile Battalion, 38th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
  • Battalion activated 25 June 1958 in Germany
  • Inactivated 20 March 1963 in Germany
  • Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Missile Battalion, 38th Field Artillery
  • Redesignated 13 September 1972 as the 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery, assigned to the 2d Infantry Division, and activated in Korea
  • Inactivated 1 October 1983 in Korea
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery, redesignated 16 June 1993 as Battery A, 38th Field Artillery, and activated in Korea
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2001 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery (organic elements concurrently activated)
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment
  • Relieved 30 November 2006 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • *Normandy
  • *Northern France
  • *Rhineland
  • *Ardennes-Alsace
  • *Central Europe
  • 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

  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON
  • *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 Elsenborn Crest
  • *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE
  • *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History


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