133rd Infantry Regiment ( United States ) The 133rd Infantry Regiment is an Infantry Regiment in the Army National Guard . History . The 1st Battalion , 133rd Infantry Regiment was originally constituted and organized in May 1861 as an element of the 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry and mustered into Federal service 27 May 1861 . It was mustered out of Federal service on 12 July 1865 at Louisville , Kentucky . The 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry was mustered again into Federal service on 2 June 1916 at Camp Dodge , Iowa for the Mexican Border and stationed at Brownsville , Texas . The unit was again and mustered out of federal service on 15 January 1917 at Fort Des Moines , Iowa . Soon thereafter , the Regiment was again called into Federal service on 25 March 1917 and was drafted into Federal service on 5 August 1917 . It was reorganized and redesignated as the 133rd Infantry and assigned to the 34th Infantry Division on 1 October 1917 . It was demobilized on 18 February 1919 at Camp Grant , Illinois . The Regiment was consolidated with the 4th Infantry , Iowa State Guard ( organized between 1918 and 1919 ) , and was reorganized and Federally recognized on 29 March 1921 as the 134th Infantry with Headquarters at Sioux City , Iowa . It was redesignated as the 133rd Infantry and assigned to the 34th Infantry Division on 11 July 1921 . The 133rd Infantry was inducted into Federal service on 10 February 1941 at Sioux City , Iowa . It inactivated on 3 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry , Virginia . It was reorganized and Federally recognized on 25 November 1946 with Headquarters at Cedar Falls , Iowa . The unit was relieved from the 34th Infantry Division on 1 May 1959 and reorganized as the 133rd Infantry , a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System . The 1st Battalion , 133rd Infantry draws its lineage and honors from that of A Company , 133rd Infantry . Subsequent assignments for the 1st Battalion , 133rd Infantry included the 47th Infantry Division and the 34th Infantry Division . It joined the latter on 10 February 1991 , becoming part of the Division ' s 2nd Brigade ( Air Assault ) . With the transformation of the 34th Infantry Division to the US Army ' s modular force structure and the reorganization and redesignation of 2nd Brigade ( Air Assault ) , 34th Infantry Division as 2nd Brigade Combat Team , 34th Infantry Division , the unit became directly assigned to the new modular brigade combat team . After completing 6 months training at Camp Shelby , Mississippi and a rotation through Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk , Louisiana the 1st Battalion 133rd Infantry made it safely into the Iraqi theater of operation . The out going unit , 1st Battalion , 118th Field Artillery from Savannah , Georgia , validated the 1st Battalion , 133rd Infantry as ready to take over the mission . The mission tasked to the 133rd Infantry Battalion was convoy security in the western region of the Iraqi theater of operations . The official take over of this mission occurred on 1 May 2006 . Lineage . Organized in the Iowa volunteer militia during 1861 as follows : ( Iowa State Militia redesignated 3 April 1878 as the Iowa National Guard ) Withdrawn 1 May 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 1 / 8 inches ( 2 . 86 cm ) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned : Argent , a Spanish castle debased Gules , to chief a fleur - de - lis of the like and on a mount a giant cactus Vert . Attached below and to the sides of the shield is a Silver scroll inscribed “ AVAUNCEZ ” in Black letters . The shield is silver , or white , the old Infantry color . The Spanish castle , taken from the Spanish Campaign Medal , is used to represent military service outside the continental limits of the United States , while the cactus and fleur - de - lis are for Mexican Border and World War I service , respectively . The motto translates to “ Advance , or Forward . ” The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 16 August 1933 . Argent , a Spanish castle debased Gules , to chief a fleur - de - lis of the like and on a mount a giant cactus Vert . That for the regiments and separate battalions of the Iowa Army National Guard : On a wreath of the colors Argent and Gules , a hawk ’ s head erased Proper . Motto : AVAUNCEZ ( Advance , or Forward ) . The shield is white , the old Infantry color . The Spanish castle , taken from the Spanish Campaign Medal , is used to represent military service outside the continental limits of the United States , while the cactus and fleur - de - lis are for Mexican Border and World War I service , respectively . The crest is that of the Iowa Army National Guard . The coat of arms was approved on 15 August 1933 . Campaign streamers . Civil War World War I World War II War on Terror Company A ( Clinton ) , 1st Battalion , additionally entitled to :