Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 July 2007
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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