114th Infantry Regiment (United States)

• Constituted 9 March 1869 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 5th Battalion.
• Partially organized 14 April 1869 from existing units at Burlington and Camden
• Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 24 August 1870 as the 6th Regiment.
• (Companies A, C, and G mustered into federal service 11–13 May 1898 at Sea Girt as Companies K, L, and M, 3d New Jersey Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of federal service 11 February 1899 at Athens, Georgia)
• Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1899 as the 3d Infantry.
• Mustered into federal service 25 July 1917 at Sea Girt; drafted into federal service 5 August 1917.
• Consolidated 11 October 1917 with elements of the 5th Infantry, New Jersey National Guard, and elements of the 1st Infantry, Delaware National Guard; consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 114th Infantry and assigned to the 29th Division (Delaware elements withdrawn in January 1918—hereafter separate lineage)
• Demobilized 14 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
• (Former 1st Battalion, 3d Infantry, reorganized in 1919 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry—hereafter separate lineage)
• Former 3d Infantry (less 1st Battalion) reorganized in 1920 in the New Jersey National Guard; Headquarters federally recognized 23 December 1920 at Camden.
• Redesignated 17 June 1921 as the 114th Infantry and assigned to the 44h Division (later redesignated as the 44th Infantry Division).
• Inducted into federal service 16 September 1940 at home stations.
• Inactivated 16 November 1945 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas.
• Relieved 9 July 1946 from assignment to the 44th Infantry Division.
• Regiment (less 3d Battalion) reorganized and federally recognized 8 October 1946 as the 214th Infantry with headquarters at Paterson (3d Battalion, 114th Infantry, reorganized and federally recognized 17 February 1947 as the 114th Armored Infantry Battalion, with headquarters at Woodbury, and assigned to the 50th Armored Division).
• (Location of Headquarters, 214th Infantry, changed 1 February 1947 to Newark)
• 214th Infantry reorganized and redesignated 15 May 1949 as the 216th Armored Infantry Battalion and assigned to the 50th Armored Division (remainder of 214th Infantry—hereafter separate lineage)
• 114th and 216th Armored Infantry Battalions consolidated 1 March 1959 and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 114th Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st and 2d Armored Infantry Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division.
• Reorganized 31 January 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division.
• Reorganized 1 February 1968 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 50th Armored Division.
• Reorganized 1 July 1975 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division.
• Withdrawn 1 May 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System.
• Reorganized 1 September 1991 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 50th Armored Division.
• Reorganized 1 September 1993 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 42d Infantry Division.
• Redesignated 1 October 2015 as the 1-114th Infantry Battalion (Air Assault), 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 42nd Infantry Division.

• 2017 – 2020 LTC Kevin H. Welsh
• 2020 – 2021 LTC John T Boyd
• 2021 – 2022 LTC Timothy P Sorrentino

Note: Highest Rank Attained by Commander Listed

• 2014 – 2016 CSM Thomas J. Clark
• 2016 – 2017 CSM Michael Colbert
• 2017 – 2018 CSM William Stuart
• 2018 – 2020 CSM Paul Horan
• 2020 – 2021 CSM Jacek K Niemynski
• 2021 – 2022 CSM John Rospond
• 2022 – Current CSM William Collier

Company B (Freehold) and Company D (Woodstown), 1st Battalion, each entitled to:

• Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered Hurtgen Forest
• Belgian Fourragere 1940
  • Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Elsenborn Crest.
  • Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes.

• Joint Meritorious Unit Award
  • Iraq (2008–2009)

• Description

Description/Blazon A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Argent, a saltire Azure, in chief a Taeguk of the last (Azure) and gray (the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 29th Division) and in base a four-leafed clover of the second (Azure) (the badge of the 3rd Division of the 2nd Corps, 1898). Attached above the shield from a wreath Argent and Azure a lion's head erased Or collared four fusils Gules. Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Gold scroll inscribed "IN OMNIA PARATUS" in Blue letters.

• Symbolism

The shield is white, the old Infantry color. The blue saltire cross represents service in the Civil War, the blue four-leafed clover in the Spanish–American War and the blue and gray Taeguk in World War I. The motto is the motto of the old 3rd New Jersey Infantry and translates to "Prepared in All Things."

• Background

The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 114th Infantry Regiment on 29 May 1925. It was amended to correct the wording in the description of the shield on 11 June 1925. The insignia was amended to include the crest on 3 July 1961.

Attribution

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army Center of Military History.

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