Silver Star (407) Air Medal (20) Bronze Star (200) Purple Heart (210) French Legion of Honor (1) Belgian Order of Leopold (1) French Croix de Guerre (124) The 15th Field Artillery Regiment (FAR) is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1916.

The regiment participated in the making of the films “The Rough Riders” and “Wings” at Camp Stanley, Texas, 27 September–23 October 1926.

The regiment, less the 2nd Battalion, was inactivated on 31 October 1929 at Fort Sam Houston and allotted to the Eighth Corps Area.

Assigned Organized Reserve officers conducted summer training with the regiment at Fort Sam Houston or Camp Bullis, Texas.

[3] The battalion subsequently served in five major campaigns in the European Theater of Operations with the 2nd Infantry Division during World War II.

1LT Lee R. Hartell was awarded the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) for heroic actions with the 15th FA Battalion during the Korean War, while serving as a forward observer.

Also, MSG Jimmie Holloway earned the Distinguished Service Cross (posthumous) in a separate combat action.

2nd Lt Harold Bascom Durham Jr., a forward observer with Battery C, 6th Battalion, would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Ong Thanh on 17 October 1967.

In March 2003 the unit shifted its focus to Iraq as part of the 10th Mountain Division's contribution to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 15th Field Artillery Organized 1 June 1917 at Syracuse, New York Assigned 21 September 1917 to the 2d Division Inactivated (less 2d Battalion) 31 October 1929 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; concurrently, relieved from assignment to the 2d Division and assigned to the 4th Division Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division) Activated (less 2d Battalion) 1 December 1934 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 15th Field Artillery Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 20 February 1956 as the 15th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Relieved 20 June 1957 from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division; concurrently, reorganized and redesignated as the 15th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 15th Field Artillery Withdrawn 16 June 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 15th Field Artillery Regiment A Silver color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄16 inches (2.7 cm) in height consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules five closets wavy Argent, on a canton Or a bend sinister of the field.

The extent of the operations is indicated by the five wavy bars on the shield representing the four historic French rivers, the Aisne, Marne, Meuse and finally the Rhine, which the regiment crossed.