Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 May 2014
1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment
- Constituted 2 February 1901 in the Regular Army as Company A, 30th Infantry
- Organized 16 March 1901 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California
- (30th Infantry assigned 21 November 1917 to the 3d Division; relieved 12 January 1940 from assignment to the 3d Division; assigned 15 May 1940 to the 3d Division [later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division]; relieved 6 April 1951 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; assigned 2 December 1954 to the 3d Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battle Group, 30th Infantry, and remained assigned to the 3d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 July 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry
- Inactivated 16 June 1989 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
- Assigned 16 August 1992 to the 3d Infantry Division and activated in Germany
- Inactivated 15 January 1994 in Germany
- Activated 16 February 1996 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Relieved 16 March 2004 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment
- Relieved 16 July 2006 from assignment to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division, and assigned to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Philippine Insurrection
- Mindoro 1901
- World War I
- *Aisne
- *Champagne-Marne
- *Aisne-Marne
- *St. Mihiel
- *Meuse-Argonne
- *Champagne 1918
- World War II
- *Algeria-French Morocco
- (with arrowhead)
- *Tunisia
- *Sicily (with arrowhead)
- *Naples-Foggia
- *Anzio (with arrowhead)
- *Rome-Arno
- *Southern France (with arrowhead)
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes-Alsace
- *Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- *Iraqi Surge
- *Iraqi Sovereignty
- *New Dawn
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SICILY
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MOUNT ROTUNDO
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BESANCON, FRANCE
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered BAGHDAD 2007
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2012
- *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered CHAMPAGNE-MARNE
- *French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- *French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History