1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery (MLRS/TA)
On order, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery (MLRS/TA) transitions to mission and deploys to provide responsive target acquisition and rocket/missile fires in support of 1st Armored Division combat or stability operations
The 94th Field Artillery was constituted in the regular army on 1 October 1933. It was re-designated as the 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalion on 1 January 1942 and five days later was assigned to the 4th Armored Division and activated at Pine Camp, New York. During the Second World War, the 94th Field Artillery earned six campaign streamers. The unit fought with distinction from Normandy through the Ardennes-Alsace region to the Rhineland.
After World War II, the 94th Field Artillery converted and was re-designated on 1 May 1946 as the 94th Constabulary Regiment. On 6 January 1948, the 94th was subsequently converted and re-designated again as the 94th Field Artillery Battalion and relieved from assignment from the 11th Constabulary Regiment. The 94th Field Artillery was deactivated on 20 May 1949, but was then reactivated on 15 June 1954 at Fort Hood, Texas, once again as part of the 4th Armored Division.
The unit was relieved from assignment to the 4th Armored Division on 1 April, 1957 and was concurrently reorganized and re-designated as the 94th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. It was once again re-designated as the 94th Field Artillery on 1 September 1971.
The 94th fought with distinction during the Vietnam War, earning 14 campaign streamers from 1966 to 1971. The 94th Field Artillery deployed with the 1st Armored Division to Southwest Asia during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
The 94th Field Artillery was deactivated on 15 January 1992, only to be reactivated on 16 July 1995 to the 1st Armored Division in Germany as Alpha Battery, 94th Field Artillery (MLRS). On 15 September 2000, the Battalion was re-designated as the 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery and now serves as the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and Target Acquisition (TA) Battalion for the First Armored Division.
