2d Battalion
15th Field Artillery Regiment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 April 2007
2d Battalion
15th Field Artillery Regiment Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery B, 15th Field Artillery
Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York
(15th Field Artillery assigned 21 September 1917 to the 2d Division)
Inactivated 31 October 1929 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas (15th Field Artillery concurrently relieved from assignment to the 2d Division and assigned to the 4th Division) (15th Field Artillery relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 2d Division [later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division])
Activated 1 December 1934 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery B, 15th Field Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 20 February 1956 as Battery B, 15th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Relieved 20 June 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division; concurrently, reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 15th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 15th Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1957 as Battery B, 15th Artillery (organic elements concurrently inactivated)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 15th Artillery (organic elements concurrently activated)
Redesignated 20 May 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 15th Artillery, and assigned to the 171st Infantry Brigade
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Battalion, 15th Field Artillery
Inactivated 30 June 1972 in Alaska and relieved from assignment to the 171st Infantry Brigade
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 15th Field Artillery, redesignated 2 April 1985 as Battery B, 15th Field Artillery, assigned to the 7th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Ord, California
Inactivated 15 September 1993 at Fort Ord, California, and relieved from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division
Redesignated 16 March 1996 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 15th Field Artillery, assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, and activated at Fort Drum, New York (organic elements concurrently activated)
Relieved 17 September 2005 from assignment to the 10th Mountain Division and assigned to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment
2d Battalion
15th Field Artillery Regiment Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: *Aisne; *Aisne-Marne; *St Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1918; *Ile de France 1918
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
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
*Presidential Unit Citation (Army), for HONGCHON
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, for AISNE-MARNE
*French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, for MEUSE-ARGONNE
*French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere
*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, for NAKTONG RIVER LINE
* Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, for KOREA 1950-1953