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The Department of Air Training (1942–1947; 1947–1954) was originally a part of the U.S. Army Ground Force's Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [1] It trained Forward Observer pilots to act as organic spotter units for U.S. Army artillery battalions and brigades.
Fort Sill was considered the best location for a Field Artillery school, since its 15,000-acre (61 km 2) reservation allowed ample room for target practice and its great variety of terrain offered an excellent area for different types of tactical training. In addition, the post had already assumed the character of the home of artillery with a ...
Charlie Battery, 3-13th Field Artillery Battalion, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2008. 3-13th Field Artillery conducted detainee security operations at Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Bucca for the first few months of their deployment.
The School of Fire for the Field Artillery was founded at Fort Sill in 1911 and continues today as the world-renowned U.S. Army Field Artillery School. At various times, Fort Sill has also served as home to the Infantry School of Musketry, the School for Aerial Observers, the Artillery Officers Candidate School (Robinson Barracks), the Air ...
Two active reserve firing battalions reported to the Brigade: the 4/75th Field Artillery and the 7/1st Field Artillery. Each battalion comprised three firing batteries equipped with 8" M110 howitzer (self-propelled), which were capable of firing tactical nuclear weapons. The Brigade was inactivated on 31 December 1990 in Chicago, Illinois.
The Air Defense Artillery School is the professional school of the Air Defense Artillery Branch of the US Army. It is at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The school was organized as the 6th ADA Brigade until 18 May 2012, when it was redesignated as the 30th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. The decision to redesignate the 6th ADA to 30th ADA was made after ...
The 428th Field Artillery Brigade is a training unit under the United States Field Artillery School, a formation under TRADOC.The brigade trains all officers and enlisted personnel from the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps as well as allied nation military personnel in field artillery core competencies in order to provide proficient integrators of lethal and non-lethal fires to the operational ...
4th Battalion 18th Field Artillery Regiment - Inactive since 1992. Last assigned to 41st Field Artillery Brigade, Babenhausen, Hessen, Germany. 5th Battalion 18th Field Artillery Regiment - Inactive since 1993. Last assigned to 75th Field Artillery Brigade, Ft. Sill, OK. was last active 8 inch unit in the United States Army.