1st Cavalry Division
Artillery Command
Lineage/DateLine
"The Red Team"




The Army did not begin a formal program for determining lineage and honors until the 1920s. Before that time, considerable confusion existed within the Army about the accepted procedures and methods for determining the prior history of units and their entitlement to battle honors. With the demobilization of the Army following World War I, many distinguished units were lost from the rolls. To avert such problems in the future, the Historical Section of the Army War College assumed responsibility for maintaining historical information about Army units: thus lineage work began.

Today the Force Structure and Unit History Branch continues the work begun by the Historical Section of the Army War College. The branch maintains historical information on active and inactive units in all components - Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard, and prepares official Lineage and Honors Certificates. On the basis of research in primary and secondary material, the certificates outline the major organizational changes undergone by the unit and provide a list of the official battle honors (campaign credit and decorations) that the unit has earned. The information contained on the certificates is reformatted for publication in the Army Lineage Series

While it would take a book to recount the rich history brought about by the changes of each unit in the , an overall look at the major reorganizational elements of the 1st Cavalry Division Artillery Lineage presents a picture of an organization that was accustomed to fighting and brought strength from change.



1st Cavalry Division Artillery
Lineage

01 November 1940; Constituted as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Cavalry Division Artillery.

03 January 1941; Activated at Fort Bliss, Texas.

04 December 1943; Redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Cavalry Division Artillery (Special) and reorganized partly under the Cavalry and partly under the Infantry Tables of Organization and Equipment.

25 March 1949; Rorganized as a Triangular Division; designation as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Cavalry Division remained the same.

26 May 2005; 5th (Red Team) Brigade (Provisional), 1st Cavalry Division was inactivated at Fort Hood, Texas.

On 30 June 2005, The 1st Cavalry Division Artillery Command, DIVARTY, which had returned to its traditional role, was inactivated at Fort Hood, Texas.


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The history of the 1st Cavalry Division Artillery recorded the following significant events occurring on the dates listed.



1st Cavalry Division Artillery
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1940
Constituted as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Cavalry Division Artillery. (01 November)

1941
Activated at Fort Bliss, Texas. (03 January)

1943
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Cavalry Division Artillery redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Cavalry Division Artillery (Special) and reorganized partly under the Cavalry and partly under the Infantry Tables of Organization and Equipment. (04 December)

1944
Los Negros Island Landing (29 February)

1945
"First in Manila" (03 February)
"First in Tokyo" (08 September)

1949
Rorganized as a Triangular Division; designation as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Cavalry Division remained the same. (25 March)

1950
"First amphibious landing in Korea" (18 July)
"First in Pyongyang" (19 October)

1970
"First in Cambodia" (01 May)

1991
"Operation Red Storm" (18 February)
"Operation Knight Strike" (19 February)
"Operation Quick Strike" (24 February)


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2005
The 5th (Red Team) Brigade (Provisional), 1st Cavalry Division was inactivated at Fort Hood, Texas. (26 May)

2005
The 1st Cavalry Division Artillery Command, DIVARTY, which had returned to its traditional role, was inactivated at Fort Hood, Texas. (30 June)





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