3rd Battalion - 29th Field Artillery Regiment
As of December 2004 the 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artllery Regiment, transitioned from the 4th Infantry Division's Division Artillery (DIVARTY) and became an exclusive part of the 3rd Brigade 4th Infantry Division. This transition was made as part of the Army's move towards self sustaining modular divisions.
As of January 2006 the 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment of 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, was participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom as part of the larger Task Force Band of Brothers which was led by 101st Airborne Division commanding general, Maj. Gen. Thomas Turner. The 3rd Brigade's mission included training the Iraqi Security Forces, assisting in the rebuilding of the Diyala Province infrastructure as well as continuing to root out the anti-Iraqi forces that inhabit the region.
The 4,000 troops in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, which included 1-8th Infantry, had nine forward operating bases spread across 1,500 square miles of Iraq north of Baghdad, from Samarra to Taji. The headquarters was at LSA Anaconda, a logistics support area about 12 miles from FOB Eagle.
The 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, was originally constituted on 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery, an element of the 10th Division. It was organized on 11 August, 1918, at Camp Funston, KS, where it demobilized on 4 February, 1919.
It was reconstituted on 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery Battalion, and activated on 1 August, 1940, at Fort Benning, GA, as an element of the 4th Division (later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division). It was reorganized and redesignated on 1 October, 1940, as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery Battalion. The unit inactivated on 14 February, 1946, at Camp Butner, NC.
It reactivated on 15 July, 1947, at Fort Ord, CA, and inactivated on 1 April, 1957, at Fort Lewis, WAn, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division.
Redesignated on 30 April, 1959, as Battery C, 29th Artillery, it was concurrently, withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the Second United States Army. It activated on 1 June, 1959, at Westminster, MD. It was relieved on 1 January, 1966, from assignment to the Second United States Army and assigned to the First United States Army.
The unit was redesignated on 1 September, 1971, as Battery C, 29th Field Artillery, before inactivating on 16 September, 1979, at Westminster, MD.
Withdrawn on 1 April, 1984, from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army, it was concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Carson, CO, with its organic elements concurrently constituted and activated.
