1st Battalion - 30th Field Artillery Regiment
The 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery, performs command, administrative, logistics, and training functions for all military personnel assigned or attached.
The 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery, was originally constituted on 5 July 1918 in the National Guard as Battery A, 30th Field Artillery, an element of the 10th Division. It organized on 10 August 1918 at Camp Funston, KS, before being demobilized there on 5 February 1919.
Reconstituted on 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 30th Field Artillery, the unit activated on 4 June 1941 at Camp Roberts, CA. It reorganized and was redesignated on 18 May 1944 as Battery A, 521st Field Artillery Battalion. It was redesignated on 1 May 1945 as Battery A, 30th Field Artillery Battalion, and inactivated on 9 February 1949 at Fort Bragg, NC.
The unit reactivated on 22 February 1950 at Fort Bragg, NC. It was reorganized and redesignated on 25 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 30th Artillery (its organic elements were constituted on 2 June 1958 and activated on 25 June 1958). It was redesignated on 1 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 30th Artillery; and on 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery. IT inactivated on 15 May 1988 in Germany.
Headquarters was assigned on 1 July 1995 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, OK.
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