103rd Armor Regiment

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103rd Armor Regiment
103rd Armored Battalion COA.png
Coat of arms
Active1941
CountryUnited States
Branch Armor Branch (United States)
TypeArmored regiment
ColorsRed and yellow
EngagementsWorld War II
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes Alsace
  • Central Europe
Operation Enduring Freedom
  • Germany
Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Iraq
  • Kuwait
Afghanistan Campaign
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia 103rd Armored Battalion DUI.png

The 103rd Armor Regiment is an armored regiment in the Pennsylvania National Guard first formed in 1941. Its legacy unit, 3rd Battalion, 103rd Armor, is a subordinate command of the 55th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division. [1]

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Operation Enduring Freedom

3rd Battalion, 103rd Armor

In July 2002, A, B, C & HQ Companies of the 3rd Battalion, 103rd Armor were activated to perform Force Protection Operations on Kasernes throughout Germany as Task Force Keystone. Those unites trained at Ft. Dix prior to deployment to Germany. Once in Germany, they took over Security and Force Protection Operations for the U.S. Army Kasernes (posts) throughout Germany. They completed their mission in March 2003.

Operation Iraqi Freedom

2nd Battalion, 103rd Armor

In January 2004, B and C Companies of the 2nd Battalion, 103rd Armor were activated and, with attachments from several other Pennsylvania Army National Guard units, reconfigured as military police companies and trained at Ft. Dix for deployment to Iraq. They were designated as companies of the 89th MP Brigade and left for Iraq in March 2004 within days of each other. Once in Iraq, they were assigned to some of the most sensitive missions of OIF II. Three platoons of Bravo Company (1st, 3rd and Headquarters) were attached to the Iraq Survey Group, while 2nd and 4th Platoons served in military police operations. Their missions included area patrols and traffic control points supporting the 1st Marine Division from Camp Fallujah. They were eventually relocated to the Green Zone/International Zone as security escorts attached to the U.S. Navy for high-ranking Interim Iraqi government officials. Charlie Company was assigned to the HVD facility at Camp Cropper, with an entire platoon assigned solely to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The units both redeployed in March 2005.

1st Battalion, 103rd Armor

In June 2004, the 1st Battalion, 103rd Armor was activated at Fort Bliss, Texas and deployed to Iraq in November for Operation Iraqi Freedom. This marked the first deployment of a 28th ID combat battalion to a war zone since World War II. The battalion, now designated as Task Force Dragoon, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Summerall, near Bayji. Attached initially to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, and then to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, the 800-man TF 1–103rd Armor, commanded by LTC Philip J. Logan, engaged in combat operations for 12 months before redeploying to the United States in November 2005. Thirteen soldiers from TF Dragoon were killed in action during combat operations in Salah Ad Din Province, a heavily Sunni Muslim area in the north part of the "Sunni Triangle".

Task Force 1–103rd Armor (Dragoons)

Campaign credit

World War II
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom

Decorations

3rd Battalion

Headquarters Company, and Company A, 3d Battalion, additionally entitled to:

Company A, 3d Battalion, additionally entitled to:

Company C, 3d Battalion, additionally entitled to:

Company D, 3d Battalion, additionally entitled to:

World War II

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References

  1. The Daily Item (Sunbury, Pennsylvania), U.S. Army Honors Local National Guard Battalion, 14 June 2011

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates  public domain material from the United States Army Center of Military History document: "103 Armor Lineage and Honors".