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The 18th Fires Brigade held a ceremony on 16 October 2014, removing the patch of the 82nd Airborne Division and donning the 18th Field Artillery Brigade patch, to signify its increased responsibility to provide long range field artillery support to the four Divisions in the XVIII Airborne Corps, and officially change its name to the 18th Field ...
Description; A gold color metal and enamel device 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 inches (2.7 cm) in height consisting of a shield blazoned: Azure, three bendlets sinister Argent, a bend double-cottized potente counter-potente Or; on a canton Gules a mullet within a fish-hook fesswise, ring to dexter and barb to base, of the second (for the 5th Field Artillery).
3rd Battalion is a rocket battalion assigned to the 18th Field Artillery Brigade, stationed at Fort Liberty, North Carolina; 377th Field Artillery Regiment. 2nd Battalion is the cannon battalion assigned to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska
During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, XVIII Airborne Corps Artillery consisted of the 3d Battalion, 8th Field Artillery; 5th Battalion, 8th Field Artillery; and the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 39th Field Artillery. The living quarters for these three units were situated between the 82d Airborne Division and the Special Forces at Fort ...
The PAVN continued sending additional forces into III Corps with the 320B and 325th Divisions moving to Long Khánh where they entered the battle on 15 April. An artillery bombardment of 1,000 rounds fell on the headquarters and 3rd Battalion, 52nd Regiment, an artillery battalion, and elements of the 5th Armored Cavalry Squadron, four 155 mm ...
103rd Field Battery, RAA – 6 x 105 mm L5 Pack Howitzers; 105th Field Battery, RAA – 6 x 105 mm L5 Pack Howitzers; 161st Battery, Royal New Zealand Artillery – 6 x 105 mm L5 Pack Howitzers (Major Harry Honnor) [4] A Battery, US 2/35th Artillery Battalion – 6 x 155 mm M109 self-propelled howitzers (Captain Glen Eure) [3] [5]
Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...
1st Battalion, 27th Artillery (April–November 1967) [3]: 102 6th Battalion, 27th Artillery (March 1970-April 1971) [3]: 102 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery (October 1969-January 1972) [3]: 103 A Battery, 5th Battalion, 42d Field Artillery (January–March 1972) 44th Signal Battalion (May–June 1972) [3]: 182 82nd Brigade Support Battalion