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First constituted on 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Troops A (Alpha) and B (Bravo) in the 21st Cavalry, their mission has changed greatly from their Cavalry days. The 1st Battalion, 79th Field Artillery is part of the 434th Field Artillery Brigade charged with the TRADOC mission of Basic Combat Training or BCT of new soldiers to the United ...
Gyroscoped to Fort Sill 1958. Redesignated 1 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 30th Artillery. Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery. Inactivated 15 May 1988 in Germany. Headquarters transferred 1 July 1995 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [2]
Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City.It covers almost 94,000 acres (38,000 ha). [2]The fort was first built during the Indian Wars. [3]
Fort Sill – Lawton; 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade; 75th Fires Brigade; 214th Fires Brigade; Henry Post Army Airfield – KFSI; United States Army Air Defense Artillery School; United States Army Field Artillery School [1] McAlester Army Ammunition Plant – McAlester/Savanna; Defense Ammunition Center [2] Oklahoma Army National Guard
History of the U.S. Army Field Artillery and Missile School; Volume III 1945–1957 (PDF). Fort Sill, Oklahoma: United States Army. 1957. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 June 2016. History of the U.S. Army Field Artillery and Missile School; Volume IV 1958–1967 (PDF). Fort Sill, Oklahoma: United States Army. 1967.
In 1940, the Army re-examined its need for horse cavalry, and cavalry divisions were disbanded and their subordinate units disbanded or converted to other types of units, including field artillery. The 75th Field Artillery Brigade was constituted in the National Guard on 30 October 1940, allotted to the state of Tennessee . and assigned to the ...
Headquartered at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, FORSCOM consists of more than 750,000 active Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard soldiers. It was created on 1 July 1973 from the former Continental Army Command , which in turn supplanted Army Field Forces and Army Ground Forces .
The Air Defense Artillery School is the professional school of the Air Defense Artillery Branch of the US Army. It is at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The school was organized as the 6th ADA Brigade until 18 May 2012, when it was redesignated as the 30th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. The decision to redesignate the 6th ADA to 30th ADA was made after ...