10th Mountain Division Artillery (DIVARTY)
The 10th Mountain Division Artillery (DIVARTY) deploys rapidly, plans and coordinates fire support, and provides timely and accurate fires to support 10th Mountain Division (LI) combat operations.
The Division Artillery Headquarters was constituted 27 August 1942 as Headquarters Mountain Training Center Artillery. It was activated 5 September 1942 at Camp Carson, CO. On 15 July 1943, it was reorganized and re-designated as Headquarters, 10th Light Division Artillery. The unit was re-designated as Headquarters 10th Mountain Division Artillery on 6 November 1944. During World War II, the Division Artillery participated in the North Apennines and Po Valley campaigns in Italy. It was inactivated at Camp Carson, CO, 30 November 1945.
On 18 June 1948, it was re-designated Headquarters, 10th Division Artillery, allotted to the regular Army on 25 June 1948, and activated at Fort Riley, KS, 1 July 1948. It was again re-organized and re-designated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters, 10th Infantry Division Artillery, and inactivated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, GA.
The unit's current history began 2 May 1987 when the Headquarters was re-designated the 10th Mountain Division Artillery at Fort Drum, NY. In 1992 it participated in Operation Hurricane Andrew Relief, and later in Kismayo, Somalia as Task Force Headquarters.
