2nd Battalion - 146th Field Artillery
On Order the 2d Battalion 146th Field Artillery alerts, mobilizes, and deploys to prescribed mobilization station for training. On order, deploys and provides DS artillery fires to the 81st Infantry Brigade (Mechanized).
The unit was originally constituted in 1914 in the Washington National Guard as the 1st Battalion, Field Artillery. It was later assigned to the 41st Division, 18 July 1917.
Battery A organized and drafted into Federal service, 5 August 1917: the remainder of the Battalion organized 25 September 1917 while in Federal service at Camp Green, North Carolina from personnel recruited for Field Artillery, Washington National Guard. It consolidated with Headquarters Company, Supply Company and 1st Battalion, 2d Infantry, Idaho National Guard and with Battery A, Field Artillery, New Mexico National Guard, reorganized and redesignated 19 September 1917 as the 146th Field Artillery and assigned to the 41st Division.
It was demobilized 26 June 1919 at Fort D.A. Russell, Wyoming.
Former Washington elements were reconstituted 1 January 1921, and consolidated with the 1st Battalion and supply Company, 161st Infantry (organized as 1st and 2d Infantry Regiments, Washington National Guard 1886-1887) and redesignated 1 May 1921 as the 146th Field Artillery, an element of the 41st Division.
The unit was inducted into Federal service at Seattle, 16 September 1940.
1st Battalion was reorganized and redesignated 17 February 1942 as the 146th Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 41st Division (subsequently the 41st Infantry Division)
It was inactivated 31 December 1945 in Japan. But was later reorganized and federally recognized 13 May 1947 at Seattle.
In 1959 the unit was consolidated with the 146th Artillery.
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