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1st Battalion
94th Field Artillery Regiment
(Deep Steel)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 November 2009

1st Battalion
94th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage

Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 94th Field Artillery

Redesignated 1 January 1942 as Battery A, 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalion

Activated 6 January 1942 at Pine Camp, New York, as an element of the 4th Armored Division

Converted and redesignated 1 May 1946 as Troop A, 94th Constabulary Squadron, an element of the 11th Constabulary Regiment

Converted and redesignated 6 January 1948 as Battery A, 94th Field Artillery Battalion (94th Field Artillery Battalion concurrently relieved from assignment to the 11th Constabulary Regiment)

Inactivated 20 May 1949 in Germany; concurrently redesignated as Battery A, 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 4th Armored Division

Activated 15 June 1954 at Fort Hood, Texas

Inactivated 1 April 1957 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Armored Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 94th Artillery

Assigned 19 June 1963 to the 4th Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Battalion activated 25 June 1963 in Germany

Relieved 10 May 1971 from assignment to the 4th Armored Division and assigned to the 1st Armored Division

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 16 November 1986 as Battery A, 94th Field Artillery, and remained assigned to the 1st Armored Division (remainder of battalion concurrently inactivated)

Inactivated 15 January 1992 in Germany

Activated 16 July 1995 in Germany

Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2000 as the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery (organic elements concurrently activated)

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment

1st Battalion
94th Field Artillery Regiment Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

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

Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire

War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

*Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ARDENNES

*Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ 2003-2004

*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991

*Army Superior Unit Award for 1995-1996

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for NORMANDY

*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for MOSELLE RIVER

*French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere


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