Headquarters and Service Battery, 1st Battalion, consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 48th Armored Division Artillery (see above), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 118th Artillery Group (remainder of regiment—hereafter separate lineage). Redesignated 1 May 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 118th Field Artillery Group. Redesignated 9 May 1978 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 118th Field Artillery Brigade. Consolidated 1 September 1992 with the 230th Field Artillery (see ANNEX) to form the 118th Field Artillery, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System, to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 48th Infantry Brigade. ANNEX Constituted 14 December 1967 in the Georgia Army National Guard as the 230th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. Organized 1 January 1968 from existing units to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 30th Infantry Division. Redesignated 1 May 1972 as the 230th Field Artillery. Reorganized 1 December 1973 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 48th Infantry Brigade. Withdrawn 1 June 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System. (1st Battalion ordered into active Federal service 30 November 1990 at home stations; released 27 March 1991 from active Federal service and reverted to state control.) Campaign Participation Credit Revolutionary War: Savannah; Georgia 1776; Florida 1778 War of 1812: Streamer without inscription Civil War (Confederate service): Atlanta; Georgia 1861; Georgia 1862; South Carolina 1862; South Carolina 1863; North Carolina 1865 World War I: Streamer without inscription World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Headquarters Battery (Chatham Artillery, Savannah), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to: Civil War (Confederate service): Peninsula; Sharpsburg; Gettysburg; Petersburg; Appomattox; Maryland 1863; Florida 1864 War with Spain: Santiago World War II – AP: East Indies; Papua; New Guinea; Luzon Battery A (Effingham Hussars, Springfield), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to: Civil War (Confederate service): Florida 1864 Battery B (Savannah Volunteer Guards/Irish Jasper Greens), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to: Civil War (Confederate service): Appomattox; Florida 1864; Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Battery C (Savannah Volunteer Guards), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to: Civil War (Confederate service): Appomattox Service Battery (Brunswick Rifles), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to: Civil War (Confederate service): Peninsula; Second Manassas; Sharpsburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Appomattox Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered UNITED