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Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery F, 14th Field Artillery. Organized 1 June 1917 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Inactivated 1 September 1921 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (14th Field Artillery assigned 15 December 1922 to the 6th Division; relieved 7 September 1927 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division.)
The shield is the shoulder patch of the 3rd Division, the bend and bendlets are from the arms of Champagne. The canton indicates the parentage of the regiment. The fishhook and Star are from the coat of arms of the 5th Field Artillery; the union battle line of Gettysburg was in the shape of a fishhook and the corps badge of Slocum's 12th Corps ...
The 75th Field Artillery Brigade (75th FAB) is an artillery brigade in the United States Army. It is currently based in Fort Sill, Oklahoma and supports the III Armored Corps. The brigade is officially tasked to train and prepares for combat; on orders deploys to any area of operations to plan, synchronize and execute combined, and joint fires ...
2nd Field Artillery Battalion moved to New Post Fort Sill in 1953, and an effort was made to give morale a boost. It was decided that the Unit Crest, a Mule with a Mountain Gun, should be reproduced in real life. A donkey was procured and a stable built on the flat behind the headquarters. The donkey was named “Big Deuce”.
As the Army's aviation assets grew, various units were created, inactivated, assigned, and reassigned. In 1922, Fort Sill was considered the busiest airport in the U.S. Aviation at Fort Sill added lighter-than-air ships to its inventory when Company A, 1st Balloon Squadron, arrived on September 5, 1917, from the Balloon School in Omaha, Nebraska.
The battalion was reactivated and assigned to the 6th Infantry Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for a brief period in 1967–68. The battalion was reactivated again in 1983 in Germany, serving with the 42nd Field Artillery Brigade there. In 1992, the battalion was reassigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and joined the 17th Field Artillery Brigade.
The regiment conducted annual summer training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The 160th Field Artillery Regiment was disbanded in 1942 when the division was "triangularized" and 1st Battalion became the 160th Field Artillery Battalion, while the 2nd Battalion was renamed the 171st Artillery Battalion. The 160th FA saw action in both World War II and Korea.
The 2nd Battalion, nicknamed "Deep Strike", is currently assigned to 75th Field Artillery Brigade, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and equipped with the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System. In the event of a contingency, the Texas Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment and Delta Battery, 2/20th Field Artillery would round it out.