History

The 402^d Field Artillery Brigade was constituted 25 January 1943 in the United States Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 402^d Field Artillery Group and later activated on 15 March 1943 at Camp Butner, North Carolina. The unit participated in the following campaigns during World War II:

Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace (Battle of the Bulge)
Central Europe.

Inactivated 26 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.

Redesignated 16 March 1985 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 402^d Brigade (Training,) activated at Lawton, Oklahoma, and assigned to the 95^th Training Division. The unit was organized with a command section, a training committee, and five subordinate battalions with 24 training batteries. The battalions were designed as units of the 89^th Field Artillery Regiment, with the 1^st Battalion in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the 2^d Battalion in Amarillo, Texas; the 3^d Battalion in Denton, Texas, the 4^th Battalion in the vicinity of Fort Worth, Texas; and the 5^th Battalion in Wichita Falls, Texas.

On 25 January 1991, the 402^d Brigade (Training) was mobilized in support of Operations Desert Shield/ Desert Storm. Detached from the 95^th Training Division and attached to the Army's Field Artillery Training Center of Excellence, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Inactivated 16 October 1996 at Lawton, Oklahoma.

On 01 December 2006 the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 402^d Brigade (Training) withdrew from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army, being re-designated as an Active Army Headquarters, and activated at Travis Air Force Base, California.

The 402^d Field Artillery Brigade's mission is to conduct post mobilization training for Army Reserve units, convoy/entry control point live fire training, and detainee operations for Army Soldiers, Air Force Airmen, and Navy Sailors. The 402^d Field Artillery has trained in excess of 15,000 service members since its move to Ft. Bliss, Texas.