Field Artillery Brigades are field artillery and rocket formations of the United States Army. They were previously named Fires Brigades for a short period. Fires Brigades were then either inactivated and reflagged as Division Artillery (DIVARTY) or reorganized and redesignated as Field Artillery Brigades. Currently active Field Artillery Brigades are:
Active duty artillery brigades:
- 17th Field Artillery Brigade, artillery brigade of I Corps
- 18th Field Artillery Brigade, artillery brigade of XVIII Airborne Corps1
- 41st Field Artillery Brigade, artillery brigade of United States Army Europe and Africa
- 75th Field Artillery Brigade, artillery brigade of III Armored Corps
- 210th Field Artillery Brigade, artillery brigade of Eighth United States Army
National Guard artillery brigades:
- 45th Field Artillery Brigade (Oklahoma Army National Guard)2
- 65th Field Artillery Brigade (Utah ARNG)
- 115th Field Artillery Brigade (Wyoming Army National Guard)3
- 130th Field Artillery Brigade (Kansas ARNG)
- 138th Field Artillery Brigade (Kentucky ARNG)
- 142nd Field Artillery Brigade (Arkansas ARNG)
- 169th Field Artillery Brigade (Colorado Army National Guard)3
- 197th Field Artillery Brigade (New Hampshire ARNG)
Army Reserve artillery brigades:
Former field artillery brigades:
- 42nd Fires Brigade, reflagged to 3rd Infantry Division Artillery4
- 51st Field Artillery Brigade, 26th Division, First World War. Charles L. Phillips commanded the brigade.5
- 52nd Field Artillery Brigade, 27th Division, First World War5
- 53rd Field Artillery Brigade, 28th Division, 1917-18
- 54th Field Artillery Brigade (Virginia Army National Guard, 329th Regional Support Group traces its origins to this headquarters)
- 56th Field Artillery Brigade (1972–1986), equipped with the Pershing II missile now the 56th Artillery Command
- 57th Field Artillery Brigade (Wisconsin Army National Guard)3
- 103rd Field Artillery Brigade (Providence, Rhode Island National Guard), disestablished 20086
- 113th Field Artillery Brigade (North Carolina National Guard)3
- 118th Field Artillery Brigade (Georgia National Guard)3
- 135th Field Artillery Brigade (Missouri Army National Guard)3
- 141st Field Artillery Brigade, Alabama Army National Guard, formed from elements 141st Field Artillery, became XIX Corps Artillery
- 147th Field Artillery Brigade (South Dakota National Guard),3 reflagged to 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade
- 151st Field Artillery Brigade
- 153rd Field Artillery Brigade (Arizona National Guard)3
- 196th Field Artillery Brigade (Chattanooga, Tennessee National Guard)3
- 209th Field Artillery Brigade (New York National Guard)3
- 212th Fires Brigade, reflagged to 1st Armored Division Artillery7
- 214th Fires Brigade, reflagged to 4th Infantry Division Artillery8
- 224th Field Artillery Brigade (Virginia Army National Guard)3
- 227th Field Artillery Brigade (Florida Army National Guard), reorganized in 1988 as the 50th Support Group, now 50th Regional Support Group
- 631st Field Artillery Brigade (Kansas National Guard3
References
References
- http://www.fortbraggpresscenter.com/go/doc/5287/2388438/82nd-Airborne-Division-Artillery-Activation-Ceremony 82nd Airborne Division Artillery Activation Ceremony, 15 October 2014
- Field Artillery. US Field Artillery Association. 1987.
- "Command and Staff". Army [Annual Almanac]. 33 (10). Association of the United States Army: 274. October 1983.
- "Thunder's Return: Moment with 3rd ID DIVARTY commander". The Frontline. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
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- McKenney, Vol 1, 2010, p. 155.
- http://www.dvidshub.net/image/1460770/divarty-returns#.VBHH9WBX_1Z 1st Armored Division Artillery Brigade, July 2014
- army.mil Historic artillery unit inactivated at Fort Sill, 2 October 2014
- Thayer, Bill (4 July 2016). "Charles L. Phillips in Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, Volumes III to VIII". Bill Thayer's Web Site. Chicago, IL: Bill Thayer. Retrieved 30 September 2023.