Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 June 2010
2d BATTALION, 5th FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT
Constituted 2 March 1899 in the Regular Army as Battery O, 7th Regiment of Artillery
Organized 19 March 1899 at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia
Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1901 as the 16th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps
Reorganized and redesignated 31 May 1907 as Battery B, 5th Field Artillery
(5th Field Artillery assigned 8 June 1917 to the 1st Expeditionary Division [later redesignated as the 1st Division]; relieved in March 1921 from assignment to the 1st Division; assigned 1 January 1930 to the 1st Division [later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division])
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery B, 5th Field Artillery Battalion
Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
Redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted)
Battalion activated 25 June 1958 in Germany
(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery, consolidated 26 August 1960 with Battery A, 5th Coast Artillery [organized in 1861], and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 5th Artillery)
Redesignated 25 June 1964 as the 2d Battalion, 5th Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated (less former Battery A, 5th Coast Artillery) 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (former Battery A, 5th Coast Artillery, concurrently redesignated as the 2d Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery ‑ hereafter separate lineage)
2d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, assigned 15 April 1983 to the 1st Infantry Division
Inactivated 15 August 1991 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
Activated 26 May 1996 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
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DECORATIONS
*Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AL ANBAR PROVINCE 2003
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered LORRAINE-PICARDY
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE and MEUSE-ARGONNE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered KASSERINE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY
*French Medaille Militaire, Fourragere
*Belgian Fourragere 1940
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons
*Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History