while attached to the 3rd Infantry Division from 28 April 2003 to 1 May 2003 and a Valorous Unit Award for sustained offensive operations against determined paramilitary forces, former regime loyalists, terrorists, and religious extremists in Baghdad Province from 7 May 2003 to 15 February 2004. Operation Iraqi Freedom II 8 Dec. 2004 through 29 March 2005 Operation Iraqi Freedom 2007-08 Beginning in December 2006, 2-319 deployed with 2nd BCT, 82nd Airborne Division as part of the lead BCT of "The Surge" into Iraq. Over the next 15 months, members of the Black Falcons deployed in the Adhamiyah neighborhood in Baghdad, established Combat Outpost (COP) War Eagle, operating as provisional infantrymen as well as training Iraqi forces. 2–319, including HHB, Battery A, Battery B and attached forward support Company G 407th Brigade Support Battalion, were awarded the Valorous Unit Award for actions from 4 January 2007 to 1 April 2008. 2-319 returned to Fort Bragg in March 2008. Operation Unified Response - HAITI 14 January 2010 through 18 March 2010 Operation NEW DAWN - IRAQ 27 May 2011 through 27 November 2011 Operation Inherent and Resolve - IRAQ 2017 Operation Inherent and Resolve - IRAQ/SYRIA 2020-2021 Lineage & honors Lineage Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Battery B, 319th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division Organized 2 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia Demobilized 18 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Battery B, 319th Field Artillery, an element of the 82d Division (later redesignated as the 82d Airborne Division) Organized in January 1922 at Decatur, Georgia Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Battery B, 319th Field Artillery Battalion Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery B, 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1947 as Battery B, 319th Field Artillery Battalion (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps) Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1948 as Battery B, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1957 as Battery B, 319th Artillery Relieved 1 February 1964 from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division and assigned to the 101st Airborne Division Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1964