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Battery A, 26TH Field Artillery Regiment History

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery, An element of the 9th Division

Organized 2 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama; Demobilized 9 February 1919 at Camp McClellan, Alabama

Reconstituted 24 March 1923 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery

26th Field Artillery assigned 22 July 1929 to the 5th Division; relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 5th Division and assigned to the 9th Division [later re-designated as the 9th Infantry Division])

Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Reorganized and re-designated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany

Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Dix, New Jersey

(26th Field Artillery Battalion relieved 1 December 1957 from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division)

Reorganized and re-designated 2 December 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Observation Battalion, 26th Artillery (organic elements constituted 1 December 1957 and activated 2 December 1957)

Reorganized and re-designated 23 September 1961 as the 1st Target Acquisition Battalion, 26th Artillery

Re-designated 15 April 1968 as the 1st Battalion, 26th Artillery

Re-designated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 26th Field Artillery

Inactivated 20 September 1978 in Germany

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 26th Field Artillery, re-designated 16 June 1988 as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado

Inactivated 15 August 1995 at Fort Carson, Colorado

Activated 16 January 1996 at Fort Hood, Texas

Inactivated 15 September 1998 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division

Activated 17 December 2004 at Fort Hood, Texas

Re-designated 1 October 2005 as Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Regiment

16 April 2007, assigned to 41st FIRES BDE under FORSCOM and designated as A Battery, 26th Field Artillery Regiment (Target Acquisition Battery)