1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment (United States)

The 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery battalion of the 37th Field Artillery Regiment within the United States Army. The battalion is currently commanded by the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and administered by the 2nd Infantry Division Artillery Command.

Lineage

 * Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 37th Field Artillery, an element of the 13th Division
 * Organised 17 August 1918 at Camp Lewis, Washington
 * Demobilised 11 February 1919 at Camp Lewis, Washington
 * Reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 37th Field Artillery
 * Re-designated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 37th Field Artillery Battalion, and activated at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as an element of the 2nd Division (later re-designated as the 2nd Infantry Division)
 * Re-organised and re-designated 20 February 1956 as Battery A, 37th Armoured Field Artillery Battalion
 * Re-organised and re-designated 20 June 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 37th Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 2nd Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
 * Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 37th Artillery, re-organised and re-designated 16 December 1957 as Battery A, 37th Artillery (remainder of battalion concurrently inactivated)
 * Re-organised and re-designated 1 June 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 37th Artillery (organic elements concurrently activated)
 * Battalion assigned 20 May 1963 to the 172nd Infantry Brigade
 * Re-designated 1 July 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 37th Artillery
 * Re-designated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery
 * Relieved 15 April 1986 from assignment to the 172nd Infantry Brigade and assigned to the 6th Infantry Division.
 * Inactivated 2 October 1986 at Fort Richardson, Alaska, and relieved from assignment to the 6th Infantry Division.
 * Assigned 16 April 1995 to the 2nd Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Honors
Campaign Participation Credit


 * World War II: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and 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, and Korea Summer 1953

Decorations


 * Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered TAEGU
 * Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered CHIPYONG-NI
 * Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON
 * Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1999–2000
 * 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 on Elsenborn Crest
 * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE
 * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950–1953