The 113th Infantry Regiment is an

Infantry Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and mar ...

regiment of the

New Jersey Army National Guard The New Jersey Army National Guard consists of more than 6,000 Citizen-Soldiers. The New Jersey Army National Guard is currently engaged in multiple worldwide and homeland missions. Units have deployed to Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Germ ...

. It is one of several National Guard units with colonial roots and campaign credit for the War of 1812.

Lineage

The unit's origins lie in the

1st New Jersey Regiment The 1st New Jersey Regiment was the first organized militia regiment in New Jersey, formed in 1673 in Piscataway "to repel foreign Indians who come down from upper Pennsylvania and western New York (in the summer) to our shores and fill (themse ...

, Continental Army, created 26 October - 15 December 1775 to consist in part of existing militia companies from Essex County. * Assigned 22 May 1777 to the New Jersey Brigade, an element of the Main Army * Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1783 as the New Jersey Regiment * Furloughed 6 June 1783 at

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* Disbanded 15 November 1783 Reorganized 5 June 1793 in the New Jersey Militia and expanded to form the

Essex Brigade The Essex Brigade, later 161st Brigade and 161st Infantry Brigade, was a volunteer infantry formation of the British Army in existence from 1888 until 1941, and again from 1947. It served at Gallipoli and in Palestine during the First World War ...

(Elements of the Essex Brigade mustered into federal service during 1814) * Essex Brigade reorganized 12 February 1852 and units from Newark and Elizabeth withdrawn to form the Independent Essex Brigade (remainder of Essex Brigade hereafter separate lineages) * Independent Essex Brigade redesignated 2 February 1858 as the Newark Brigade * 1st Regiment, Newark Brigade, organized in 1858 at Newark Mustered into federal service 30 April 1861 at Trenton as the 1st Regiment, New Jersey Brigade; mustered out of federal service 31 July 1861 at Newark * Reorganized and mustered into federal service 14 September 1861 at Trenton as the 8th Regiment of Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers * Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1864 as the 8th Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers; consolidated 12 October 1864 with the 6th Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers (mustered into federal service 19 August 1861 at Trenton as the 6th Regiment of Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 8th Regiment of Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers * Mustered out of federal service 17 July 1865 at Washington, D.C. Former 1st Regiment, Newark Brigade, reorganized and redesignated 19 July 1865 as the 1st Regiment, New Jersey Rifle Corps * (New Jersey Militia redesignated 9 March 1869 as the New Jersey National Guard) * Reorganized 14 April 1869 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 1st Regiment * Consolidated 22 June 1875 with the 2nd Regiment (see ANNEX 1) and consolidated unit designated as the 1st Regiment * Consolidated 31 May 1892 with the 5th Regiment (Veteran) (see ANNEX 2) and consolidated unit designated as the 1st Regiment * Mustered into federal service 5 ‑ 12 May 1898 at

Sea Girt Sea Girt is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 1,828,29th Division * Demobilized 27‑28 May 1919 at

Camp Dix Fort Dix, the common name for the Army Support Activity (ASA) located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Army post. It is located south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. Fort Dix is under the jurisdiction of the Air Force A ...

, New Jersey Former 1st and 4th Regiments consolidated with the 1st Battalion, 114th Infantry, and reorganized in the New Jersey National Guard as the 6th Infantry with headquarters federally recognized 13 November 1919 at Newark * Redesignated 17 June 1921 as the 113th Infantry and assigned to the 44th Division * Inducted into federal service 16 September 1940 at home stations * Relieved 16 February 1942 at

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from assignment to the 44th Division, reassigned to

Eastern Defense Command The Eastern Defense Command was first established as the Northeast Defense Command on 17 March 1941 as one of four U.S. Army continental defense commands to plan and prepare for and execute defense against enemy attack in the months before Ameri ...

30 April 1942, relocated to

Fort Hamilton Fort Hamilton is a United States Army installation in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. It is one of several posts that are part of the region which i ...

, New York 19 March 1943 * Inactivated 25 September 1945 at

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, Alabama Consolidated 9 July 1946 with the 324th Infantry (see ANNEX 5) and consolidated unit designated as the 113th Infantry * Regiment (less 2nd Battalion) reorganized and federally recognized 14 November 1946 at Newark as the 113th Armored Infantry Battalion and assigned to the 50th Armored Division; 2nd Battalion reorganized and federally recognized 3 December 1946 at Paterson as the 215th Armored Infantry Battalion and assigned to the

50th Armored Division (United States) The 50th Armored Division was a division of the Army National Guard from July 1946 until 1993. History On 13 October 1945 the War Department published a postwar policy statement for the entire Army, calling for a 27-division Army National Guar ...

* 113th and 215th Armored Infantry Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 1 March 1959 as the 113th Infantry, a parent regiment under the

Combat Arms Regimental System The Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS), was the method of assigning unit designations to units of some of the combat arms branches of the United States Army, including Infantry, Special Forces, Field Artillery, and Armor, from 1957 to 1981. ...

, to consist of the 1st and 2nd Armored Rifle Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division * Reorganized 31 January 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division * Reorganized 1 July 1975 to consist of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division * Reorganized 16 October 1984 to consist of the 2nd and 3rd 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 The United States Army Regimental System (USARS) is an organizational and classification system used by the United States Army. It was established in 1981 to replace the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS) to provide each soldier with continu ...

* Reorganized 1 September 1991 to consist of the 2nd Battalion, an element of the 50th Armored Division * Reorganized 1 September 1993 to consist of the 2nd Battalion, an element of the 42nd Infantry Division. In 2012 the single remaining battalion of the regiment is assigned to the

50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team The 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Jersey Blues") was an infantry brigade combat team of the United States Army National Guard of New Jersey. It was headquartered at the Lawrenceville Armory. Background The 50th Brigade Combat Team was the ...

, NJ ARNG. *Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 113th Infantry Regiment *Reorganized to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

Annex 1

*Mustered into federal service 27 May 1861 at Trenton as the 2d Regiment of Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers *Reorganized 17 December 1864 as the 2d Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers; mustered out of federal service 11 July 1865 at Hall's Hill, Virginia *Reorganized 19 July 1865 as the 2d Regiment, New Jersey Rifle Corps, with headquarters at

Newark Newark most commonly refers to: * Newark, New Jersey, city in the United States * Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey; a major air hub in the New York metropolitan area Newark may also refer to: Places Canada * Niagara-on-the ...

*Reorganized 14 April 1869 I the New Jersey National Guard as the 2d Regiment

Annex 2

*Organized in 1866 in the New Jersey Militia at Newark as the 1st Battalion, Veterans *Expanded, reorganized and redesignated in 1867 as the Veteran Regiment *Reorganized 14 April 1869 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 5th Regiment (Veteran)

Annex 3

*Organized 31 January 1880 as the Paterson Light Guard *Reorganized 25 May 1880 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 1st Battalion *Reorganized and redesignated 8 June 1892 as the 1st Battalion, 2d Regiment *Mustered into federal service 13–15 May 1898 at Sea Girt as the 1st Battalion, 2d New Jersey Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of federal service 17 November 1898 at Paterson *Reorganized 2 May 1899 in the New Jersey National Guard as Companies A, C, K, and M, 1st Regiment *Reorganized and redesignated 4 February 1902 as the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment *Mustered into federal service 21–26 June at

Sea Girt Sea Girt is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 1,828,Camp Dix Fort Dix, the common name for the Army Support Activity (ASA) located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Army post. It is located south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. Fort Dix is under the jurisdiction of the Air Force A ...

, New Jersey

Annex 4

*Organized from exiting units in the Hudson Brigade, New Jersey Militia and mustered into federal service 1 May 1861 at Trenton as the 2d Regiment, New Jersey Brigade; mustered out of federal service 31 July 1861 at Trenton and reorganized in the New Jersey Militia as the 2d Regiment, Hudson Brigade *Reorganized 14 April 1869 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 1st Battalion with headquarters at

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*Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 6 April 1874 as the 9th Regiment with headquarters at Hoboken *Redesignated 27 March 1886 as the 2d Regiment *Consolidated 31 May 1892 with the 4th Regiment (organized in 1867 in the New Jersey Rifle Corps as the 4th Regiment with headquarters at Hudson City; reorganized 14 April 1869 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 4th Regiment with headquarters at Jersey City) *Mustered into federal service 7–24 July 1898 at Sea Girt as the 4th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of federal service 6 April 1899 at Greenville, South Carolina *Reorganized 2 May 1899 in the New Jersey National Guard as the 4th Regiment with headquarters at Jersey City *Mustered into federal service 21 June 1916 at Sea Girt; mustered out of federal service 13 October 1916 at Sea Girt *Mustered into federal service 12 April 1917 at Jersey City; drafted into federal service 5 October 1917

Annex 5

*Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 324th Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division *Organized in September 1917 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina *Demobilized 17 June 1919 at

Camp Devens Fort Devens is a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Due to extensive environmental contamination it was l ...

, Massachusetts *Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 324th Infantry and assigned to the 81st Division *Organized in January 1922 with headquarters at

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*Inactivated 30 January 1942 and relieved from assignment to the 81st Division *Withdrawn 1 February 1943 from the Organized Reserves, allotted to the Army of the United States, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington, as an element of the 44th Infantry Division

Commanders

*2021 - Present LTC Brian Gregg *2019 - 2021 LTC Nicholas Calenicoff *2017 – 2019 LTC Richard T. Karcher *2014 – 2017 LTC Walter R. Gill *2012 – 2014 LTC Douglas J. Brockmann *2010 – 2012 COL Paul Nema *2008 – 2010 BG Mark A. Piterski *2007 – 2008 LTC James A. Hayes *2005 – 2007 COL Nicholas Chimienti *2004 – 2005 LTC Patrick M. Dacey *2002 – 2004 LTC Joseph M. O'Connor *2000 – 2002 LTC Kenneth R. Rausa *1998 – 2000 COL Peter F. Falco *1994 – 1996 COL Richard W. Kuechenmeister *1990 – 1994 COL Leonard Luzky *1988 – 1990 LTC John Promaulayko *1986 – 1988 COL Warren J. Curd *1943 – 1943 LTC Vinton L. James *1942 – 1943 COL Gilbert B. Brownwell *1941 – 1942 MG Norman H. Schwarkoff *1940 – 1941 MG Manton S. Eddy *1918 – 1918 COL John E. Woodward *1917 – 1917 COL John D. Fraser *1898 – 1898 COL Robert G. Smith *1864 – 1865 COL John Ramsay *1863 – 1864 MAJ John G. Langston *1862 – 1863 COL John Ramsay *1861 – 1862 COL Adolphus J. Johnson Note: Highest Rank Attained by Commander Listed

Command Sergeant Major

*2021–Present CSM Lisandro Peralta *2017 – 2021 CSM Kevin Kirkpatrick *2015 – 2017 CSM Leonel Abreu *2011 – 2014 CSM Thomas E. Alexander *2006 – 2011 CSM Thomas J. Clark *2005 – 2006 CSM Ricardo Reyes *2004 – 2005 CSM Joseph V. Tatem *1995 – 2004 CSM Jerome Jenkins *1992 – 1995 CSM Robert Trainor *1989 – 1992 CSM Donald Feldhan

Campaign Participation

Revolutionary War

* Brandywine 1777 * Germantown 1777 * Monmouth 1778 * Canada 1776 * New York 1776 * New Jersey 1777 * New York 1777 * New York 1779 * New Jersey 1780 * Yorktown 1781

War of 1812

* Streamer Without inscription Streamer-1812

Civil War

* Bull Run * Peninsula Campaign Streamer CSA Peninsula 1862

* Manassas *

Antietam The Battle of Antietam (), or Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union G ...

* Fredericksburg Campaign Streamer CSA Fredericksburg

* Chancellorsville Campaign Streamer CSA Chancellorsville

* Gettysburg Campaign Streamer CSA Gettysburg

* Wilderness * Spotsylvania *

Cold Harbor The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought during the American Civil War near Mechanicsville, Virginia, from May 31 to June 12, 1864, with the most significant fighting occurring on June 3. It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S ...

*Petersburg Campaign Streamer CSA Petersburg

* Shenandoah * Appomattox Campaign Streamer CSA Appomattox

*Virginia 1863

World War I

* Meuse-Argonne World War I Streamer

*Alsace 1918 *

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1918

World War II

* Northern France Campaign Streamer WWII Northern France 1944

* The Rhineland Campaign Streamer WWII Rhineland 1944–1945

*Ardennes-Alsace Campaign Streamer Ardennes-Alsace 1944–1945

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*Company A (Essex Troop-Newark), Company B (Newark), and Company D (Jersey City), 2nd Battalion, each additionally entitled to: World War II-EAMEC and

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

(with arrowhead) European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal streamer

*Company C (Woodbridge), 2d Battalion, additionally entitled to: World War II-AP and

Aleutian Islands The Aleutian Islands (; ; ale, Unangam Tanangin,”Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi ''aliat'', "island"), also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a chain of 14 large v ...

Campaign Streamer WWII North Apennines 1944–1945

War on Terrorism

* Phase 5: Iraqi Surge Iraq Campaign Ribbon

* Phase 6: Iraqi Sovereignty Iraq Campaign Ribbon

*HHC, 2D BATTALION,113TH INFANTRY REGIMENT(Riverdale), Company A (Newark), Company B (Jersey City), Company C (Woodbridge), Company F 250th BSB (Teaneck), **attached** Troop A,(Dover) 1st Squadron, 102d Cavalry Regiment The Iraq Campaign Streamer is added to the 2/113 Infantry Battalion's Guidon on 22 January.

Decorations

War on Terrorism Streamer MUC Army

*HHC, 2D BATTALION,113TH INFANTRY REGIMENT(Riverdale), and Troop A,(Dover) 1st Squadron, 102d Cavalry Regiment each entitled to Meritorious Unit Commendation (MUC) Iraq Service. (GENERAL ORDERS NO. 2014–12 28 May 2014) World War II *Company A (Essex Troop-Newark), 2nd Battalion, entitled to: French Croix de Guerre with Palm and World War II and Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY *Belgium Fourrangere 1940 *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium *Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes *Company B (Newark) and Company D (Jersey City), 2nd Battalion, each entitled to: French Croix de Guerre with Palm and World War II and Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY

Distinctive unit insignia

* Description A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Azure, a saltire Argent, in chief an oak tree eradicated of the last. 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 "FIDELIS ET FORTIS" in Black letters. * Symbolism The shield is blue for the Infantry; the white saltire cross commemorates the service of the old regiment in the Civil War and the silver oak tree the service in World War I (Argonne Forest). The motto is the motto of the old 1st New Jersey Infantry and translates to "Faithful and Brave." * Background The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 113th Infantry Regiment on 26 March 1925. It was amended to include the motto on 22 July 1925. It was redesignated for the 113th Armored Infantry Battalion on 5 July 1952. The insignia was redesignated for the 113th Infantry Regiment and amended to include the State crest on 5 June 1961.

Coat of arms

Blazon

* Shield Azure, a saltire Argent, in chief an oak tree eradicated of the last. Attached above the shield from a wreath Argent and Azure, a lion's head erased Or collared four fusils Gules. * Crest That for the regiments and separate battalions of the New Jersey Army National Guard: On a wreath of the colors Argent and Azure, a lion's head erased Or collared four fusils Gules. Motto: FIDELIS ET FORTIS (Faithful and Brave).

Symbolism

* Shield The shield is blue for the Infantry; the white saltire cross commemorates the service of the old regiment in the Civil War and the silver oak tree the service in World War I (Argonne Forest). * Crest The crest is that of the New Jersey Army National Guard.

Background

The coat of arms was originally approved for the 113th Infantry Regiment on 26 March 1925. It was redesignated for the 113th Armored Infantry Battalion on 5 July 1952. It was redesignated for the 113th Infantry Regiment on 5 June 1961.

References

* * *http://www.apd.army.mil/Search/ePubsSearch/ePubsSearchDownloadPage.aspx?docID=0902c851800106ec * Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from ..., Volume 1 By Francis Bernard Heitma

* Encyclopedia of United States Army insignia and uniforms By William K. Emerson (page 51

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External links

* The Institute of Heraldry, 113TH INFANTRY REGIMEN

* New Jersey National Guar

* National Guard Militia Museum of New Jerse

* United States Army Lineage And Honors Informatio

* 8th New Jersey Infantry Regiment Engagement

* 8th New Jersey Infantry Regiment Monument - Gettysbur

Locatio

* 8th New Jersey Infantry Regiment - Participation at Gettysburg (Oral Description of Battle

* 8th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry - Unit Histor

* Richard A. Rinaldi, The US Army in World War I - Orders of Battl

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110105180532/http://oldnewark.com/military/units/index.htm * http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/2-113in.htm * http://www.dvidshub.net/video/56925/troops-help-secure-area-around-camp-bucca#.VI39Aa0tGP8 2-113th Infantry Troops Help Secure Area Around Camp Bucca * Army Regulation 600-8-2

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