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402nd Field Artillery Brigade (Training Support)

The 402nd Field Artillery Brigade (Training Support) provides training support to designated Reserve Component units to ensure they mobilize, train, deploy, and demobilize in accordance with Division West, First US Army and higher directives. As directed, the Brigade executes culminating training events and validates Reserve Component DEF units, and provides training to Active Army and Joint or Combined forces.

The 402nd Field Artillery Brigade (Training Support) was first constituted on 25 January 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 402nd Field Artillery Group. The Group was activated on 15 March 1943 at Camp Butner, North Carolina. During the Second World War the Group participated in 4 campaigns in the European Theater of Operations: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. Following the end of the Second World War, the Group was inactivated on 26 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.

The unit was allotted on 16 October 1946 to the Organized Reserves and activated on 3 December 1946 at Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Organized Reserves was redesignated on 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps, which the Group remained a part of. The Group was inactivated 22 November 1950 at Tulsa, Oklahoma. While the Group was inactive, the Organized Reserve Corps was redesignated on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve.

The unit was redesignated on 16 March 1985 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 402nd Brigade (Training) and activated as a part of the Army Reserve at Lawton, Oklahoma. The Brigade was inactivated there on 16 October 1996 at Lawton, Oklahoma.

The unit was withdrawn on 1 December 2006 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army. It was concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 402nd Field Artillery Brigade, and Headquarters activated at Travis Air Force Base, California. The 402nd Field Artillery Brigade (Training Support) became part of Division West, First US Army and was eventually moved to Fort Bliss, Texas.