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Converted and redesignated 22 December 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1965 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 25 November 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 21 June 1979 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 52d Aviation Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 52d Aviation Battalion Inactivated 16 October 1988 in Korea Redesignated 16 January 1996 as the 52d Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System

The 52nd Infantry Regiment ("Ready Rifles") is an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The charges on the canton of the regiment's coat of arms represent the 11th Infantry from which this regiment was formed in 1917. Its first combat service was in World War I in the Gerardmer Sector in Alsace, a short distance west of Colmar. The bend from the arms of Alsace has been charged with the 6th Division shoulder sleeve insignia to show that the regiment was with that division in France. The coat of arms was originally approved for the 52d Infantry Regiment on 29 June 1921. It was redesignated for the 52d Armored Infantry Regiment on 29 September 1942. The insignia was redesignated for the 52d Armored Infantry Battalion on 6 January 1944.

The 210th Aviation Battalion was partially formed from the assets of the provisional CAPITAL Aviation battalion at Tan Son Nhut and served with the 1st Aviation Battalion . On 15 January 1966 the battalion was assigned to the 12th Aviation Group and moved to Long Thanh. In July 1971 the unit was transferred to the 165th Aviation Group. It provided fixed wing airfraft support to III Corps and IV CTZ.

14th Aviation Battalion Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI), National Defense Service Ribbon, Vietnam War Service and Vietnam Campaign Ribbons

The 6 guns from the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion played a critical part in slowing the North Korean Armored attack in the Battle of Osan Korea. There was a limited number of HEAT shells for the unit's 105 mm howitzers, crew-served weapons that could defeat T-34/85 tanks from the Soviet Union, had not been distributed to the US Army forces in Korea.

the 14th Combat Aviation Battalion. Members of the Battalion have engaged the Enemy from Nha Trang to the Khe Sanh and into the Kingdom of Loas over the past seven years. These engagements have taken their toll. One hundred and fifty four men have died gallantly for the cause of freedom and countless more were wounded. Joseph F Rutkowski LTC, IN

The regiment was constituted 21 August 1965, in the regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 10th Aviation Battalion. The Battalion was activated 23 August 1965 at Fort Benning, GA and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Aviation Battalion on 1 December 1968. 10th Aviation was an important contributor to the United States Army’s efforts in Vietnam. The unit provided critical Aviation support in the first Tet counter-offensive and distinguished itself by successfully fulfilling this vital role. 10th Aviation regularly repeated this standard for success in the intervening years and was recognized for valorous acts at Dak To and Tuy Hoa Valley. By the end of the Vietnam War.

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