122nd Field Artillery Regiment

October 2024 October 2024 September 2024 122nd Field Artillery Regiment 122FARegtCOA.jpg 100px Coat of arms USA USA 25pxField artillery USARS parent regiment regiment Home station 100px Distinctive unit insignia 33rd Infantry Division SSI|100px Should Sleeve Insignia of the 33rd Brigade Combat Team U.S. Field Artillery Regiments 121st Field Artillery 123rd Field Artillery The 122nd Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the Illinois Army National Guard. The regiment's 2nd Battalion is the cannon battalion assigned to the 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team. History The 2nd Battalion, 122nd Artillery was deployed to help suppress the April 1968 Chicago riots.Scheips Paul The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992 US Army Center of Military History 2005 9781517253783 https://history.army.mil/html/books/030/30-20/CMH_Pub_30-20.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150920132904/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/030/30-20/CMH_Pub_30-20.pdf dead 20 September 2015311–2Detachment 1, 1st Battalion, 122nd Artillery was deployed to Afghanistan in support of the 1-178 Infantry Battalion in support of Operation Freedoms Sentinel.Associated Press Illinois National Guard set to deploy 400 troops to Afghanistan https://www.wifr.com/content/news/Illinois-National-Guard-set-to-deploy-400-troops-to-Afghanistan-513246631.html 2020-06-23 www.wifr.com 26 July 2019 english Lineage and honors Lineage Constituted 21 June 1893 in the Illinois National Guard as the 7th Infantry Regiment and organized at Chicago from the Hibernian Rifles, a former civilian-military organization Mustered into Federal service 18 May 1898 as the 7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 20 October 1898 and resumed state status as the 7th Infantry Regiment Mustered into Federal service 27 June 1916; mustered out of Federal service 26 January 1917 Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917 Converted and redesignated 12 October 1917 as the 108th Ammunition Train and 108th Supply Train and assigned to the 33d Division Demobilized 5 June 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois Reorganized 26 June 1919 in the Illinois National Guard at Chicago as the 7th Infantry Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 May 1921 as the 2d Field Artillery Redesignated 13 September 1921 as the 124th Field Artillery and assigned to the 33d Division Inducted into Federal service 5 May 1941 at Chicago Regiment broken up 12 February 1942 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Battery disbanded; 1st Battalion as the 1st Battalion, 208th Field Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 33d Division; 2d Battalion as the 124th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 33d Infantry Division 1st Battalion, 208th Field Artillery, reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1943 as the 208th Field Artillery Battalion. Inactivated 9 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Assigned 5 July 1946 to the 33d Infantry Division. Reorganized and Federally recognized 15 March 1948 at Chicago 124th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 5 February 1946 in Japan. Reorganized and Federally recognized 4 February 1947 at Chicago 208th and 124th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated 1 March 1959 with the 122d Field Artillery Battalion (see ANNEX) to form the 122d Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th Howitzer Battalions, elements of the 33d Infantry Division Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 33d Infantry Division Reorganized 1 February 1968 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 33d Infantry Brigade Redesignated 1 May 1972 as the 122d Field Artillery Withdrawn 5 February 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System Reorganized 1 September 1996 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 34th Infantry Division Reorganized 1 October 1997 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 35th Infantry Division Ordered into active Federal service 16 November 2003 at home stations; released from active Federal service 13 May 2005 and reverted to state control Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 122d Field Artillery Regiment Relieved 1 September 2006 from assignment to the 35th Infantry Division and assigned to the 33d Infantry Brigade Combat Team Ordered into active Federal service 2 October 2008 at home stations; released from active Federal service 5 November 2009 and reverted to state control ANNEX Constituted 1 July 1897 in the Illinois National Guard as a squadron of cavalry and organized from existing elements Expanded, reorganized, and mustered into Federal service 21 May 1898 at Springfield as the 1st Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; mustered out of Federal service 11 October 1898 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois Reorganized in 1899 in the Illinois National Guard as a squadron of cavalry. Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 22 June 1899 as the 1st Cavalry Mustered into Federal service 27 June 1916; mustered out of Federal service 17 November 1916 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Chicago elements of the regiment converted and redesignated 9 June 1917 as the 2d Field Artillery (non-Chicago elements converted and redesignated 24 June 1917 as the 3d Field Artillery – hereafter separate lineage) Field Artillery drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917 Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1917 as the 122d Field Artillery and assigned to the 33d Division Demobilized 7–8 June 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois Reorganized 11 November 1921 in the Illinois National Guard at Chicago as the 1st Field Artillery Redesignated 13 September 1921 as the 122d Field Artillery and assigned to the 33d Division Inducted into Federal service 5 March 1941 at Chicago Regiment broken up 12 February 1942 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Headquarters and Headquarters Battery disbanded 1st Battalion as the 122d Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 33d Infantry Division; (remainder of regiment – hereafter separate lineages) 122d Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 5 February 1946 in Japan Consolidated 18 December 1946 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 122d Field Artillery (concurrently reconstituted in the Illinois National Guard) and consolidated unit reorganized and Federally recognized at Chicago as the 122d Field Artillery Battalion"Lineage & Honors Information: 122d Field Artillery Regiment." Center for Military History. 6 May 2015. Web, accessed 29 December 2017. <>. Campaign participation credit World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918 World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; New Guinea; Luzon War on Terrorism Afghanistan: Consolidation II (additional campaigns to be determined) Decorations 35pxPhilippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 Headquarters Battery (Chicago), 2d Battalion, additionally entitled to: 35px Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC THEATER 1944-1945 35px Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC THEATER 1945 Heraldry Distinctive unit insignia 100px Coat of arms 100px See also Field Artillery Branch (United States) References External links 122 122 Category:Field artillery