133rd Infantry Regiment (United States)

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133rd Infantry Regiment
133rd Infantry Regiment Coat of Arms.png
Coat of arms
Active1861–present
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Allegiance Iowa
Branch Iowa Army National Guard
TypeInfantry
SizeRegiment
Nickname(s)"First Iowa" (special designation)
"Ironman"
Motto(s)Avauncez (old French for "advance" or "forward")
Insignia
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The 133rd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the Iowa Army National Guard. It is represented by the 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, part of the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division.

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History

Civil War

The 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment was originally constituted and organized in May 1861 as an element of the 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry and mustered into federal service 27 May 1861. It was mustered out of federal service on 12 July 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. [1]

Mexican Expedition and World War I

The 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry was mustered again into federal service on 2 June 1916 at Camp Dodge, Iowa for the Mexican Border and stationed at Brownsville, Texas. The unit was again and mustered out of federal service on 15 January 1917 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Soon thereafter, the regiment was again called into federal service on 25 March 1917 and was drafted into federal service on 5 August 1917. It was reorganized and redesignated as the 133rd Infantry and assigned to the 34th Infantry Division on 1 October 1917. [1]

Interwar period

The 133rd Infantry arrived at the port of New York on 24 January 1919 on the USS General G. W. Goethals, and was demobilized 18 February 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois. It was reconstituted in the National Guard in 1921, assigned to the 34th Division, and allotted to the state of Iowa. It was reorganized on 11 July 1921 by redesignation of the 134th Infantry (organized and federally recognized on 21 June 1919 as the 4th Infantry, Iowa National Guard, with headquarters at Iowa City, Iowa; redesignated 134th Infantry on 29 March 1921) as the 133rd Infantry. The headquarters was successively relocated as follows: Des Moines, Iowa, in 1922; Sioux City, Iowa, 22 September 1927; and Waterloo, Iowa, 19 July 1940. The entire regiment was called up to perform the following state duties: riot control during the “Cow War” in Cedar County/Burlington, Iowa, 21 September–25 November 1931; riot control during a workers’ strike at the Swift Meat Packing Plant in Sioux City, Iowa, 19 October–21 November 1938. The regiment conducted annual summer training most years at Camp Dodge, Iowa, from 1921–39. For at least two years, in 1938 and 1940, the regiment also trained some eighteen company-grade infantry officers of the 89th Division at Camp Dodge and Camp Ripley, Minnesota.

World War II

The regiment was inducted into active federal service at home stations on 10 February 1941 and moved to Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, where it arrived on 1 March 1941. [2] It was inactivated on 3 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia.

Cold War

The 133rd Infantry Regiment was reorganized and federally recognized on 25 November 1946 with headquarters at Cedar Falls, Iowa. [1]

The unit was relieved from the 34th Infantry Division on 1 May 1959 and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. The 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry draws its lineage and honors from that of Company A, 133rd Infantry. Fearing a loss of federal revenue, Iowa Governor Norman A. Erbe and Adjutant General Junior Miller initially refused to comply with an April 1962 National Guard Bureau order to eliminate one of the three Iowa-stationed battle groups of the 34th Infantry Division under the ROAD reorganization. [3]

Subsequent assignments for the 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry included the 47th Infantry Division and the 34th Infantry Division. It joined the latter on 10 February 1991, becoming part of the division's 2nd Brigade (Air Assault). With the transformation of the 34th Infantry Division to the US Army's modular force structure and the reorganization and redesignation of 2nd Brigade (Air Assault), 34th Infantry Division as 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, the unit became directly assigned to the new modular brigade combat team. [1]

Modern

After completing six months of training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and a rotation through Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana, the 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, made it safely into the Iraqi theater of operation. The outgoing unit, 1st Battalion, 118th Field Artillery, from Savannah, Georgia, validated the 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, as ready to take over the mission. The mission tasked to the 133rd Infantry Battalion was convoy security in the western region of the Iraqi theater of operations. The official take over of this mission occurred on 1 May 2006. [4]

A soldier of Company A, 1-133 Infantry in Afghanistan, November 2010 Company a 1st battalion 133rd infantry soldier in Afghanistan.jpg
A soldier of Company A, 1-133 Infantry in Afghanistan, November 2010

Activated in August 2010 and mobilized out of Camp Shelby, Mississippi, the battalion completed a validation exercise at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, CA, and was forward deployed to Laghman & Nuristan provinces in Afghanistan. Tasked with conducting Counterinsurgency in support of Unified Land Operations in Regional Command East, the 1-133 Infantry Battalion excelled at lethal and nonlethal targeting to secure the populace, civil-military operations to improve the infrastructure and education, and mentoring host nation forces for eventual hand off of security. After nine months in theatre, the 1-133 Infantry was relieved in place and reverted to state control in August 2011. [5]

Lineage

Organized in the Iowa volunteer militia during 1861 as follows:

(Iowa State Militia redesignated 3 April 1878 as the Iowa National Guard)

Withdrawn 1 May 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

Distinctive unit insignia

A Silver color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄8 inches (2.9 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Argent, a Spanish castle debased Gules, to chief a fleur-de-lis of the like and on a mount a giant cactus Vert. Attached below and to the sides of the shield is a Silver scroll inscribed "AVAUNCEZ" in Black letters.

The shield is silver, or white, the old Infantry color. The Spanish castle, taken from the Spanish Campaign Medal, is used to represent military service outside the continental limits of the United States, while the cactus and fleur-de-lis are for Mexican Border and World War I service, respectively. The motto translates to "Advance, or Forward".

The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 16 August 1933. [6]

Coat of arms

Campaign streamers

Civil War

World War I

World War II

War on Terror

Decorations

Company A (Clinton), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "133d Infantry Regiment (First Iowa) Lineage and Honors". 3 October 2011. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  2. ↑ Clay, Steven E. (2010). U.S. Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941, Volume 1. The Arms: Major Commands and Infantry Organizations, 1919-41. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. p. 422.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. ↑ "Order Iowa Guard to Eliminate Battle Group". Carroll Daily Times Herald. AP. 26 April 1962. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Iowa soldiers return Wednesday". Quad-City Times. 24 July 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  5. ↑ Matson, Ryan C. (Fall 2011). "Reflections on the 133rd Infantry Battalion Afghanistan, 2010-2011" (PDF). 34th Infantry Division Association Newsletter. p. 4.
  6. 1 2 "133d Infantry Regiment". United States Army Institute of Heraldry. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
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