3-7th Field Artillery
"Never Broken"
In FY 2006, as part of the Army's transformation towards a modular force, 3-7 FA stood down from DIVARTY and stood up with the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division.
3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery plans and coordinates fire support and delivers conventional Field Artillery fires in direct Support of 3d Brigade Combat Team or as directed, throughout the full range of military operation.
The 3-7th was originally constituted on 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 7th Field Artillery and organized 15 July 1916 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas and was assigned 8 June 1917 to the First Expeditionary Division (later redesignated as 1st Infantry Division) as part of the 7th Field Artillery.
The 7th Field Artillery was inactivated 1 December 1934 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont and again activated 1 May 1939 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont.
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery C, 7th Field Artillery, Battalion the Unit served until 1957 when it was inactivated 15 February at Fort Riley, Kansas and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division.
Consolidated 1 September 1958 with Battery C, 7th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (active) (organized 1898), and the consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Gun Battalion, 7th Field Artillery (organic elements constituted 12 August 1958 and activated 1 September 1958).
In November 1960 the unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 3rd Missile Battalion, 7th Field Artillery. Five years later it was redesignated 20 August 1965 as the 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery.
It was again redesignated (less former Battery C, 7th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion) 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, and inactivated in Germany (former Battery C, 7th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion, concurrently reorganized as the 3d Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery - hereafter separate lineage).
In 1986 the unit was activated as 3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and assigned to the 25th Infantry Division (Light).
