Mission

To plan, coordinate, and execute lethal and non-lethal fire support of the designated division or joint armed forces command. Its non-lethal missions include electronic warfare, psychological operations, offensive information operations and deployment of munitions such as illumination, smoke and riot-control agents.

Rail Gunner Vision

• An Agile & Adaptive Team, highly skilled at integrating accurate, timely, and decisive fires into full spectrum operations, composed of:
  • Confident, Fit, Disciplined, & Resilient Warriors
  • Strong, Supportive, & Self-reliant Families
  • Professional, Competent, & Caring Leaders.

Leadership Philosophy

• Lead like you want to be led, follow like you want to be followed, and be a team player
• Do what is right and do it right - values and standards
• Take care of Soldiers and Families like your own
• Take care of equipment like your own
• Train, Teach, and Mentor - Warriors, Leaders, Units

Organizational Summary

A "Fires" Brigade can conduct full-spectrum operations with attached air or ground maneuver forces. It operates across the full spectrum of conflict, including stability operations, security force operations and foreign internal defense. The Fires brigade has several key elements that give it the flexibility to receive assigned or attached units, including an organic brigade support battalion and signal company.

The 41st Fires Brigade, an artillary organization an Army military unit of the United States Army, has roots back to 26 August 1918 in the Regular Army as the 41st Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps), It has evolved into a Fires Brigade, that organizationally - has revolved around elements of field artillery that functionally embraced recent structural changes in Divisional support, transforming the historical Division Artillery (DIVARTY) units into Fires Brigades.

The main functions included in a Fires Brigade System are:

• Communications.
• Command - athority to allocate resources.
• Target acquisition - detect, identify and deduce the location of targets.
• Control - authority to decide which targets to attack and allot fire units to the attack.
• Production of firing data - to deliver fire from a fire unit onto its targe.
• Fire unit guns, launchers or mortars grouped together.
• Specialist services - produce data to support the production of accurate firing data.
• Logistic services to provide combat supplies, particularly ammunition, and equipment support.

The current functional "fire" elements of the 41st Fires Brigade include:

• The 2nd "Deep Strike" Battalion, 20th Field Artillery was first constituted on 01 July 1916 in the Regular Army as "B" Battery, 20th Field Artillery and was activated in June 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an element of the 4th Division, later re-designated as the 4th Infantry Division. In 1957 the battalion was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division and activated in Korea.. ..........
  
  
• The 21st Field Artillery was constituted in the Regular Army on 01 July 1916 and organized at Camp Wilson, Texas on 01 June 1917. It was assigned to the 5th Division in 1917 and saw combat in France during World War I, participating in the St. Mihiel and Lorraine (1918) Campaigns. Following World War I, the 21st Field Artillery was retired until 06 October 1939 when it was reactivated as part of the 5th Division. As part of the 5th Division, the 21st saw action in the World War II campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe.
  
  The 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery began its association with the 1st Cavalry Division. During the Vietnam War, the 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery participated in 15 different campaigns including the Tet Counteroffensive and Counteroffensives I-VII. ..........
  
  
• "A" Battery, 26th Field Artillery was activated 17 December 2004 at Fort Hood, Texas and subsequently on 01 October 2005, redesignated as "A" Battery, 26th Field Artillery Regiment. On 16 April 2007 it weas assigned to 41st Fires Brigade under FORSCOM and designated as "A" Battery, 26th Field Artillery Regiment (Target Acquisition Battery). ..........

On 28 March 2006, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Field Artillery Brigade (previously deactivated in Gernamy) was redsignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 41st Fires Brigade and on 16 April, 2007 was reactivated at Fort Hood, Texas. The 41st Fires Brigade included the Brigade Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1-21st Field Artillery, 2-20th Field Artillery, "A" Battery, 26th Field Artillery (Target Acquisition), 589th Brigade Support Battalion, and the 324th Signal Company (Network Support). Assigned to III Corps, the 41st Fires Brigade established a relationship supporting the 1st Cavalry Division, also based at Fort Hood, Texas.

As January 2008 began, the 41st Fires Brigade was trained and ready, serving as a contingency expeditionary force with a prepare-to-deploy-order mission, providing lethal and nonlethal fires and fire support anywhere in the world. Then in late January, the Brigade received a change in mission, directing the unit to deploy to Wasit Province as a battlespace owning brigade serving as a brigade combat team in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Brigade reorganized, trained at home station and in 28 May 2008, began to deploy personnel and equipmentto Iraq for the third time. Arriving in Wasit, the brigade served under the 10th Mountain Division and Multi-National Division-Central.

On 16 October, 2008, in a change of command ceremony, the 41st Fires Brigade was attached to the 1st Cavalry Division with full Administrative Control (ADCON) and Training and Readiness Authority (TRA).

On 03 August 2009, in a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Delta, members of the 41st Fires Brigade transferred responsibility of coalition operations in Wasit province, to the 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade. For the Soldiers of the 41st FB, the ceremony marked the end of a 15-month deployment that has spanned the transition from counter insurgency to nation building.

As of today, the 41st Fires Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, stands ready to lead the way to any contingency area world-wide to accomplish any mission that the future might bring. The 41str Fires Brigade, represented by the following active subordinate units, is functionally organized and are diligently training and preparing to answer the call of duty.

A "Look Back" To "How It Was"

41st Fires Brigade Organization
"HHB", 41st Fires Brogade 589th Brigade Supt Bn "HHC", 589th Bde Supt Bn "A" & "B" Company 324th Network Supt Co 2nd Bn, 20th Field Arty "HHB 20h Field Arty "A", "B" & "C" Cos 67th Forward Supt Co 1st Bn, 21th Field Arty "HHB 21h Field Arty "A", "B" & "C" Cos 575th Forward Supt Co "A" Btry, 26th Field Arty
Date Of Issue - 25 Apr, 2012

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Today, the soldiers of the 41st Fires Brigade stand ready to answer an on-order mission to reset, train, deploy, conduct combat operations as directed, and redeploy while ensuring great care is provided for our families.

The following folio of material highlights the many subsequent historical and critical missions performed by members of the 41swt Fires Brigade, whose actions, operations and the many critical issues resolved over its 95 year history to meet the changing threat and the honors they achieved are summarized in the following sections:

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