1st Battalion - 39th Field Artillery Regiment (MLRS)
1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery Regiment (MLRS), was originally constituted on 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 39th Field Artillery, as an element of the 13th Division. The battalion first organized 9 August 1918 at Camp Lewis, WA, and was demobilized 26 February 1919 at Camp Lewis, WA.
The battalion was reconstituted again on 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 39th Field Artillery. The battalion was activated at Fort Lewis, WA, on 1 October 1940, as an element of the 3rd Division (later re-designated as the 3d Infantry Division). The battalion saw its first action in Algeria and French Morocco. It stayed with the 3rd Infantry Division through out the remainder of World War II, fighting in Italy, across southern France and into Central Europe earning ten campaign streamers.
The battalion again fought with distinction in the Korean War where it earned another eight campaign streamers. The battalion was again inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, GA, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division; it was concurrently, redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery.
The Battalion re-activated 25 June 1958 in Germany and inactivated 15 April 1964 in Germany.
The battalion next saw action in the Vietnam War when it again activated and re-designated on 10 October 1969 as the 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery in Vietnam. It earned another six campaign streamers during the Vietnam War.
On 1 September 1971 the 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery was reassigned to Fort Bragg, NC. While at Fort Bragg it served during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm earning another three campaign streamers. The Battalion was inactivated 15 January 1996 at Fort Bragg, NC.
The next month it was redesignated on 16 February 1996 as Battery A, 39th Field Artillery (TAB), assigned to the 3d Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Stewart, GA.
The battalion was redesignated on 14 June 2000 as the 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery (MLRS), assigned to the 3d Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, GA.
