25th Field Artillery Regiment
US military unit.
History
The 25th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army, first constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army (USA). Although the regiment did not see action during World War I, elements participated in World War II, Vietnam, Panama (including Operation Just Cause), the Gulf War, and the global war on terrorism. Currently the regiment one active battalion, a towed light artillery units equipped with the M119A3 105 mm howitzer and the M777A2 155 mm howitzer. The 5th Battalion is assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Johnson, Louisiana. The 4th Battalion was inactivated on 14 August 2014.
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Wars and campaigns
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Key dates
- 1918The 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery traces its history to Battery D, 25th Field Artillery Regiment, which was originally constituted on 5 July 1918 in the National Army as part of the 25th Field Artillery Regiment in the 9th Infantry Division.
- 1920Reconstituted 22 December 1920 in the Regular Army as Battery E, 25th Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts).
- 1946(25th Field Artillery Battalion redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 25th Parachute Field Artillery Battery and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia; inactivated 14 November 1946 at Fort Benning, Georgia).
- 1946Redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 25th Parachute Field artillery Battery. and activated at Fort Benning, Georgia; inactivated 14 November 1946 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- 1957Division.) Former Battery A, 25th Field Artillery, reconstituted 1 July 1957 in the
- 1968Redesignated 15 April 1968 as the 3d Battalion, 25th Artillery.
- 1988Inactivated 16 June 1988 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division.
- 1995Inactivated 15 September 1995 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment
- 2004The 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery was reactivated as the direct support fires battalion for 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division 16 September 2004 as part of the transformation of the 10th Mountain Division into a modular BCT division.
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Records that place someone with this unit
A unit history doesn't name everyone who served. These records do:
- Morning reports and unit rosters: access (National Personnel Records Center)
- Search Army morning reports, 1912–1946 (National Archives Catalog)
- Unit and organizational records held in St. Louis