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When the 9th Infantry Division returned from Vietnam in May 1972, its division. Artillery, the 1st Bn/34th FA Regiment replaced the 2/34 FA which was moved to Fort Knox, KY. All Battalions of the 34th are entitled to wear the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to the 34th FA for its fire support stopping the 1943 German Offensive in Tunisia.
The 9th Field Artillery Battalion departed Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 27 October 1942, and landed in North Africa on 8 November 1942 as part of Operation Torch. [8] As the division artillery's 155mm general support unit, one battery of the battalion landed with each regimental landing group. [9]
FA – Field Artillery; FAK – First Aid Kit; FAR – Federal Acquisition Regulation; FBCB2 – Force XXI Battlefield Command Brigade and Below; FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation; FEBA – Forward Edge of the Battle Area; FFE – Fire for effect; FIDO – Fire Direction Officer; FIGMO – Fuck It, Got My Orders; FIST – Fire Support Team
a torch, symbolising the industrial area within the metropolitan area of Ingolstadt; a crosier, symbolising the bishopric of Eichstätt; an antler, symbolising the medieval county of Hirschberg (German Hirsch = "deer") the blue and white checkered pattern of Bavaria
The training provided soldiers an excellent environment with temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees and several inches of snow. In January 2010, 4–42 FA deployed in similar weather conditions to provide indirect fires in support of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger training on Fort Carson ranges.
The regiment was constituted on 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 7th Field Artillery. It was organized on 15 July 1916 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.On 8 June 1917 it was assigned to the First Expeditionary Division, which was later designated as the 1st Division as part of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I.
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