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7th Cavalry
(Garry Owen)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 July 2003

7th Cavalry Lineage

Constituted 28 July 1866 in the Regular Army as the 7th Cavalry

Organized 21 September 1866 at Fort Riley, Kansas

Assigned in December 1917 to the 15th Cavalry Division

Relieved in May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division

Assigned 13 September 1921 to the 1st Cavalry Division

(Reorganized 4 December 1943 partly under cavalry and partly under infantry tables of organization and equipment, and the 1st Cavalry Division concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division, Special; regiment reorganized 25 July 1945 wholly as infantry, but retained cavalry designations)

Regimental troops redesignated 25 March 1949 as companies (1st Cavalry Division, Special concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division)

Relieved 15 October 1957 from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1957 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System

Withdrawn 16 February 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

7th Cavalry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Indian Wars: Comanches; Little Big Horn; Nez Perces; Pine Ridge; Montana 1873; North Dakota 1874

Mexican Expedition: Mexico 1916-1917

World War II: New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago (with arrowhead); Leyte (with arrowhead); Luzon

Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Third Korean Winter

Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire

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

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ANTIPOLO, LUZON

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for YONCHON, KOREA

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for TAEGU, KOREA

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PUSAN, KOREA

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PLEIKU PROVINCE

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for BINH THUAN PROVINCE

Valorous Unit Award for QUANG TIN PROVINCE

Valorous Unit Award for FISH HOOK

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for WAEGWAN-TAEGU

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1952-1953

Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA


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