20th Field Artillery Regiment
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The Army did not begin a formal program for determining lineage and honors until the 1920s. Before that time, considerable confusion existed within the Army about the accepted procedures and methods for determining the prior history of units and their entitlement to battle honors. With the demobilization of the Army following World War I, many distinguished units were lost from the rolls. To avert such problems in the future, the Historical Section of the Army War College assumed responsibility for maintaining historical information about Army units: thus lineage work began.

Today the Force Structure and Unit History Branch continues the work begun by the Historical Section of the Army War College. The branch maintains historical information on active and inactive units in all components - Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard, and prepares official Lineage and Honors Certificates. On the basis of research in primary and secondary material, the certificates outline the major organizational changes undergone by the unit and provide a list of the official battle honors (campaign credit and decorations) that the unit has earned. The information contained on the certificates is reformatted for publication in the Army Lineage Series

While it would take a book to recount the rich history brought about by the changes of each unit in the 20st Field Artillery Regiment, an overall look at the major reorganizational elements of the Brigades Lineage presents a picture of an organization that was accustomed to fighting and brought strength from change.



2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regimen
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01 July 1916; Constituted in the Regular Army of the United States as "B" Battery, 20th Field Artillery.

01 June 1917; Organizedat Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as an element of the 5th Division

05 September 1921; Inactivated at Camp Bragg, North Carolina.

23 March 1923; 20th Field Artillery relieved from assignment to the 5th Division and assigned to the 8th Division.

01 January 1930; Relieved from assignment to the 8th Division and assigned to the 5th Division.

16 October 1939; Relieved from assignment to the 5th Division.

01 June 1940; Activated at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division).

01 October 1940; Reorganized and redesignated as "B" Battery, 20th Field Artillery Battalion.

13 February 1946; Inactivated at Camp Butner, North Carolina.

06 July 1948; Activated at Fort Ord, California.

01 April 1957; Inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division.

22 August 1957; Redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Battalion, 20th Artillery (organic elements concurrently constituted).

15 October 1957; Battalion assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division and activated in Korea.

01 July 1960; Redesignated as the 2nd Rocket Howitzer Battalion, 20th Artillery.

01 September 1963; Redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery.

10 April 1971; Inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington.

01 September 1971; Redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery.

13 September 1972; Relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado.

16 September 1980; Relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division.

01 June 1984; Inactivated in Germany.

16 September 1987; Activated in Germany.

15 June 1992; Inactivated in Germany.

16 January 1996; Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery, redesignated as "B" Battery, 20th Field Artillery, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas.

17 September 1998; Reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery (organic elements concurrently activated).

16 December 2004; Relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division.

01 October 2005; Redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment.


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The history of the 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery recorded the following significant events occurring on the dates listed.



2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment
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1916
20st Field Artillery constituted in the Regular Army of the United States. (01 July)


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