2nd Battalion - 77th Field Artillery Regiment
As of January 14th, 2006, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, which included 2nd Battalion 77th Field Artillery Regiment, took control of Forward Operating Base Prosperity, located in Baghdad, from 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. Their mission included training Iraqi Security Forces and maintaining security within the central and southern regions of the Iraqi capital.
History
19th Cavalry was converted and designated as the 77th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 November 1917.The unit was assigned to the 4th Division on 19 November, 1917, it arrived in France in June 1918 with the 4th Division.
It participated in heavy combat in five campaigns, including the Aisne-Marne campaign and the Battle of Meuse Argonne. After occupation duty it returned home in 1919 and was inactivated at Camp Lewis, Washington in 1921. Reactivated in 1935 at Fort DA in Russell, Wyoming as a 155mm howitzer regiment.
The 77th Field Artillery Regiment was relieved from assignment to 4th Division in 1939 and assigned to the 18th Field Artillery Brigade, VII Corps on 27 January 1942. The 77th participated in the amphibious assault on Licata, Sicily 9 July 1943. Then saw combat on the Italian mainland in Naples, Anzio, and Rome.
On 24 February, 1944, the regiment was broken up with 2nd Battalion becoming the 631st FA Battalion. The 634th FA participated in the amphibious assault on Southern France and saw further action in the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace and Central European campaigns.
Designated as 77th Field Artillery Battalion on 15 May, 1945, it was inactivated 4 January, 1946, at Camp Kilmer, NJ. Battery B, 77th FA Bn reactivated on 1 August, 1957, as HHB, 2d Missile Battalion, 77th Artillery (105mm howitzer) at Fort Hood, Texas.
The unit moved to Fort Lewis on 6 May, 1959 and rejoined the 4th Infantry Division.
The battalion arrived in Vietnam on 9 October, 1966, and was initially based at Dau Tieng as the direct support battalion for the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division.
Reassigned to the 25th Infantry Division on 1 August, 1967, it moved to Cu Chi in 1969. The 2nd Battalion, 77th Artillery participated in eleven Vietnam campaigns receiving a Presidential Unit Citation for the battle of Soui Tre and three awards of the Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm.
The battalion departed Vietnam on 7 December, 1970. It was reassigned to the 4th Infantry Division and inactivated on 15 December, 1970, at Fort Lewis.
The 2nd Battalion was reactivated in Germany in 1986 as a MLRS battalion and assigned to the 17th Field Artillery Brigade of the VII Corps. The battalion was inactivated on 1 March, 1991.
The battalion was activated on 16 December, 2004 (SP 155mm), to provide fires for the new 4th BCT, 4th Infantry Division.
