94th Field Artillery Regiment

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94th Field Artillery Regiment
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Coat of arms
Active1933-present
Country Flag of the United States.svg
BranchFlag of the United States Army.svg  United States Army
Type USA - Army Field Artillery Insignia.svg Field artillery
Role USARS parent regiment
Size regiment
Motto(s)FLEXIBLE
Branch colorScarlet
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia 94 FA Rgt DUI.jpg

The 94th Field Artillery was constituted in the Regular Army on 1 October 1933.

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History

It was redesignated as Battery A, 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalion on 1 January 1942. Five days later it was assigned to the 4th Armored Division at Pine Camp, New York. During the Second World War, the 94th Field Artillery earned six campaign streamers. The unit fought with distinction spanning from Normandy though the Ardennes-Alsace region into the Rhineland.

After World War II, the 94th Field Artillery converted and redesignated on 1 May 1964 as the 94th Constabulary Squadron and was concurrently relieved from their assignment to the 4th Armored Division and reassigned to the 11th Constabulary Regiment.

On 6 January 1948, they were subsequently converted and redesignated again as the 94th Field Artillery Battalion and relieved from assignment to the 11th Constabulary regiment. The 94th Field Artillery was inactivated on 20 May 1949 and later reactivated on 15 June 1954 at Fort Hood, Texas once again a part of the 4th Armored Division. The unit was relieved from assignment to the 4th Armored Division on 1 April 1957 and was reorganized and redesignated as the 94th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System.

The battalion was activated on 25 June 1963 in Germany and relieved on 10 May 1971 from assignment to the 4th Armored Division and assigned to the 1st Armored Division.It was again redesignated as the 94th Field Artillery on 1 September 1971. The 94th Field Artillery fought with distinction in Vietnam, earning 14 campaign streamers from 1966 to 1971. The 94th Field Artillery deployed with the 1st Armored Division to Southwest Asia during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. The 94th Field Artillery was again inactivated on 15 January 1992, only to be reactivated on 16 July 1995 to the 1st Armored Division in Germany as Alpha Battery, 94th Field Artillery (MLRS). On 16 September 2000 the Field Artillery was redesignated as the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery (MLS/TA) and deployed with the 1st Armored division to Iraq for 15 months from April 2003 to July 2004, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit then deployed in support of Joint Task Force – East to Romania and Bulgaria from August to October 2007 and exercise Stable Guardian in Poland in December 2007. On 29 May 2008, the 94th Field Artillery cased its colors on Strassburg Kaseme in Idar-Oberstein, Germany for its re-stationing to JBLM, WA.

In June 2011, Alpha Battery 1-94 FAR deployed to Iraq for Operation New Dawn for a six-month rotation in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Simultaneously, Charlie Battery 1-94 FAR deployed to Kuwait in support of Defense of Arabian Peninsula, and Bravo Battery and 125 FSC deployed to Jordan, all for one year deployments. 

In December 2013, the battalion deployed to the CENTCOM AOR for a nine-month deployment to Camp Redleg, UAE in support of GWOT. Upon redeployment in September 2014 to JBLM, the unit reset and retrained for any follow-on missions. Coming out of the COVID-19 PANDEMIC, the battalion continued to shift focus to gunnery, culminating in a BN FTX during January 2021. Throughout 2021, 1-94 FAR also participated in joint training exercises across the INDOPACOM AOR to include missions in Japan, Australia, Indonesia, and Thailand in support of Exercises ORIENT SHEILD, TALISMAN SABRE, GARUDA SHIELD, and COBRA GOLD. They continue to build on past exercises and missions and are preparing for both missions in Thailand and the Philippines in 2022.

In 2022, 1-94 FAR continues to build strategic alliances by participating in a Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) and Bi-lateral HIRAIN exercises in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia during Exercises SALAKNIB BALIKATAN, COBRA GOLD, and GARUDA SHIELD. In addition, Bravo Battery "BULLDOGS" conducted training in Anchorage, Alaska, testing the Platoon's capabilities of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in extreme-cold weather conditions as part of JPMRC 22–05.

Current Status of Regimental Elements

M107 self-propelled gun of "A" Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Artillery fires in support of Marines in the A Shau valley, 1 August 1967 A189143.jpg
M107 self-propelled gun of "A" Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Artillery fires in support of Marines in the A Shau valley, 1 August 1967

Lineage and honors

Lineage

Campaign participation credit

Decorations

Distinctive unit insignia

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Coat of arms

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