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(s) In Omnia Paratus (In All Things Prepared)
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Manton S. Eddy
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113th Infantry Regiment 115th Infantry Regiment

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


Civil War

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

World War I

  • Alsace 1918

World War II

  • Northern France

  • Rhineland

  • Ardennes-Alsace

  • Central Europe

World War II -- EAME

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

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

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.

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

  • Coats of arms of U.S. Infantry Regiments


References

Attribution

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

References
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