114th Infantry Regiment (United States)

114th 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
Motto In Omnia Paratus (Ready for Anything)
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The 114th Infantry Regiment is an Infantry regiment of the New Jersey Army National Guard.

Lineage

Source: 114th Infantry (Third New Jersey). Lineage and Honors. Department of the Army. US Army Center of Military History. http://www.history.army.mil/

Commanders

  • 2014 – present LTC Frederick Pasquale Jr

Note: Highest Rank Attained by Commander Listed

Command Sergeant Major

  • 2014 – present CSM Thomas J. Clark

Campaign Participation

World War I

  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Alsace 1918

World War II

  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

Civil War

Headquarters Company (Woodbury), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:

World War II -- EAME

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

  • Normandy

Decorations

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.

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
  • Crest

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


See also


References

Attribution

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

References