3rd Battalion - 82nd Field Artillery Regiment
"Red Dragons"
The 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment was originally constituted on 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Troops E and F, 24th Cavalry. It was organized on 5 June 1917 at Fort D. A. Russell, WY.
It was consolidated, converted, and redesignated on 1 November 1917 as Battery C, 82nd Field Artillery, an element of the 15th Cavalry Division(the 82nd Field Artillery was relieved in May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division)
The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 9 September 1921 as Battery C, 82nd Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division. It was again reorganized and redesignated on 17 March 1930 as Battery C, 82nd Field Artillery. before inactivating on 1 December 1934 at Fort Bliss, TX.
Redesignated on 3 January 1941 as Battery C, 82nd Field Artillery Battalion, it reactivated at Fort Bliss, TX. It inactivated on 15 October 1957 in Japan and was relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division.
Redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Gun Battalion, 82nd Artillery (with its organic elements concurrently constituted), the battalion activated on 25 June 1958 in Germany. It inactivated there on 20 December 1963.
Redesignated on 10 September 1964 as the 3rd Battalion, 82nd Artillery, it was reassigned to the 196th Infantry Brigade and activated on 15 September 1965 at Fort Devens, MA.
It was relieved on 15 February 1969 from its assignment to the 196th Infantry Brigade and assigned to the 23rd Infantry Division.
Redesignated on 1 September 1971 as the 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, it was relieved on 1 November 1971 from its assignment to the 23rd Infantry Division and assigned to the 196th Infantry Brigade. It inactivated on 30 June 1972 at Oakland, CA, and was relieved from its assignment to the 196th Infantry Brigade.
Reassigned on 16 June 1986 to the 1st Cavalry Division, the 3rd Battalion reactivated at Fort Hood, TX.
