1st Field Artillery Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Field Artillery
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
1st Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 1st Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
2d Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 2d Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
3d Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 3d Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 4th Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
5th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 5th Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
6th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
The 6th Battalion's modern history includes Army Reserve service at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as the 6th Rocket Battalion, 1st Artillery, from 1959 to 1963. It returned to the Regular Army in 1967 with the 6th Infantry Division at Fort Campbell and was inactivated there in 1969.
After the 1971 separation of field artillery and air defense lineages, it became the 6th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery. It served with the 1st Armored Division in Germany from 16 January 1988 until 15 January 1994. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 370.
7th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
The 7th Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery, was activated in the Army Reserve at Cleveland, Ohio, on 20 March 1959 with the 83d Infantry Division. Renamed the 7th Battalion in 1963, it was inactivated on 31 December 1965.
It returned as the 7th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery, at Chicago on 1 September 1971. Its headquarters later moved to Addison and back to Chicago, where the battalion was inactivated on 15 September 1996. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 372.
8th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
The 8th Missile Battalion, 1st Artillery, was activated at Fort Bliss, Texas, on 24 September 1960. It was redesignated as the 8th Battalion, 1st Artillery, on 30 June 1968.
On 1 September 1971 the combined artillery lineage split. The field artillery element became the 8th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery, and was inactivated on Okinawa; the air defense element continued under a separate lineage. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 374.
9th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment
The 9th Howitzer Battalion, 1st Artillery, was activated in Hawaii with the 25th Infantry Division on 1 July 1961. It left that division and was inactivated in 1963, then served at Fort Carson as the 9th Battalion, 1st Artillery, from August 1967 to August 1968.
Its field artillery lineage was designated the 9th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery, on 1 September 1971, when the former antiaircraft component became a separate air defense artillery lineage. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 376.
Research note: The added historical entries cite their sources individually. Regimental illustrations are labeled as such. An earlier battalion designation can continue through another battalion or a separate battery; these relationships are identified in the entries. These additions follow Janice E. McKenney, Field Artillery (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2010), Parts 1 and 2. The published lineages principally cover developments through 2003; they are not a current order of battle. The original five symbol cards retain their links to individual reference pages.