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Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 June 2011

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1st BATTALION,
31st FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT

 

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 31st Field Artillery, an element of the 11th Division

Organized 6 August 1918 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland

(31st Field Artillery relieved 30 September 1918 from assignment to the 11th Division)

Demobilized 9 December 1918 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland

Reconstituted 22 July 1929 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 31st Field Artillery, an element of the 2d Division

(31st Field Artillery relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 2d Division)

Activated 1 July 1940 at Camp Ord, California, as an element of the 7th Division (later redesignated as the 7th Infantry Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 31st Field Artillery Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Field Artillery Battalion, 31st Artillery, an element of the 7th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

Redesignated 1 July 1960 as the 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 31st Artillery

Redesignated 1 July 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 31st Artillery

Relieved 20 February 1971 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division

Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 31st Field Artillery

Inactivated 16 June 1979 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division

Headquarters transferred 28 February 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Inactivated 15 September 1996 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 31st Field Artillery Regiment

Activated 1 October 2010 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  World War II                                                     Korean War
*Aleutian Islands                                               *UN Defensive
*Eastern Mandates                                            *UN Offensive
*Leyte                                                               *CCF Intervention
*Ryukyus                                                          *First UN Counteroffensive
                                                                        *CCF Spring Offensive
                                                                        *UN Summer-Fall Offensive
                                                                        *Second Korean Winter
                                                                        *Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
                                                                        *Third Korean Winter
                                                                        *Korea, Summer 1953

 

DECORATIONS

        *Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945

*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered INCHON

*Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950‑1953

        *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1945‑1948, 1953‑1971

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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