The 1st Infantry Division Artillery (DIVARTY) is the divisional artillery command and force fires headquarters for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. The DIVARTY has served with the division from 1917 to 1939, 1940–1995, 1996–2005, and reactivated in October 2015. The unit has been stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, and in Germany, and has seen combat in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The DIVARTY provides a single proponent with the division for standardized fires certification and leader development while exemplifying effective mission command, and supporting the seamless cross-attachment of units with common procedures and a shared understanding of the fires warfighting capabilities.
History
World War I
1st Field Artillery Brigade
5th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm) 6th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 7th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 1st Trench Mortar Battery
Interwar
On 7 October 1920, the 1st Field Artillery Brigade organized under the peacetime TO&E, which included two light (75mm) regiments, and ammunition train of battalion size and a medical detachment. In 1929, the medium (155mm) regiment returned to the brigade. Due to budgetary constraints, none of the units were manned or equipped to wartime strength. The 1st Division adopted a new peacetime TO&E in preparation for war on 8 January 1940, which included one light field artillery regiment of three battalions and one medium field artillery regiment of two battalions. The 1st Infantry Division reorganized again on 1 November 1940 to a new TO&E, which reorganized the Artillery Brigade into a division artillery command led by a brigadier general with one medium and three light field artillery battalions.
World War II
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery
5th Field Artillery Battalion (155 mm) 7th Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) 32nd Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm) 33rd Field Artillery Battalion (105 mm)
Vietnam War
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery
1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (105mm) 8th Battalion, 6th Artillery Regiment (155mm) 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm) 6th Battalion, 15th Artillery Regiment (105mm) 2nd Battalion, 33rd Artillery Regiment (105mm) Battery D, 25th Field Artillery Regiment (Target Acquisition)
Cold War & Gulf War
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery
1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (155mm) 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (155mm) 4th Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (155mm) Battery B, 6th Field Artillery Regiment (MLRS) Battery D, 25th Field Artillery Regiment (Target Acquisition)
Global War on Terror
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery
1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (155mm) 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
Lineage and honors
Lineage
Constituted 24 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 1st Expeditionary Division Partially organized in June 1917 at Washington, D.C.; organization completed in August 1917 in France Disbanded 16 October 1939 at Fort Hoyle, Maryland Reconstituted 10 September 1940 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Division Artillery Activated 1 October 1940 at Madison Barracks, New York Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery Inactivated 15 November 1995 at Fort Riley, Kansas Activated 16 February 1996 in Germany Inactivated 15 February 2006 in Germany Activated 17 October 2015 at Fort Riley, Kansas
Campaign credit
Decorations
Distinctive unit insignia
Description/blazon: A red increscent with the human portion of a centaur issuant with drawn bow and arrow all in gold partially superimposed and between the cusps of the increscent. The insignia is 1 3/32 inches (2.78 cm) in width Symbolism: The 1st Field Artillery Brigade had in its organization the 6th and 7th Field Artillery Regiments and the badge consists of a charge from the shield of the coat of arms of the 7th Field Artillery and a portion of the crest of the 6th Field Artillery Regiment, to show the brigade's connection with these units Background: The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 1st Field Artillery Brigade on 17 August 1928. It was redesignated for Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery on 28 December 1954.