113th Infantry Regiment (United States)

113th Infantry Regiment

Coat of arms
Active 1775
Country  United States
Branch New Jersey Army National Guard
Type Infantry
Size Regiment
Part of 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, NJ ARNG
Nickname(s) FIRST NEW JERSEY [1]
Motto(s) Fidelis et Fortis (Faithful and Brave)
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia
U.S. Infantry Regiments
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The 113th Infantry Regiment is an Infantry regiment of the New Jersey Army National Guard.

Lineage

The unit's origins lie in the 1st New Jersey Regiment, Continental Army, created 26 October - 15 December 1775 to consist in part of existing militia companies from Essex County.

Reorganized 5 June 1793 in the New Jersey Militia and expanded to form the Essex Brigade (Elements of the Essex Brigade mustered into federal service during 1814)

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

Former 1st Regiment, Newark Brigade, reorganized and redesignated 19 July 1865 as the 1st Regiment, New Jersey Rifle Corps

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

Consolidated 9 July 1946 with the 324th Infantry (see ANNEX 5) and consolidated unit designated as the 113th Infantry

Withdrawn 1 May 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

Annex 1

Annex 2

Annex 3

Annex 4

Annex 5

Commanders

Note: Highest Rank Attained by Commander Listed

Command Sergeant Major

  • 2015 - Present 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

War of 1812

Civil War

  • Petersburg

  • Virginia 1863

World War I

World War II

  • Ardennes-Alsace

  • 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 (with arrowhead)

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

War on Terrorism

  • 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

[3] The Iraq Campaign Streamer is added to the 2/113 Infantry Battalion’s Guidon on 22 January.

Decorations

War on Terrorism

  • 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.

[4](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.

See also

References

External links

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