The 9th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1916. The regiment served in Hawaii during World War I, 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 9th Divisions between the world wars, and with 3rd Infantry Division during World War II and Korea. Since 1957, the regiment has been a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System and the U.S. Army Regimental System, with regimental elements serving with the 3rd, 4th, 10th, 25th, 79th, 83rd, and 96th Infantry Divisions and various field artillery brigades and groups. The regiment's single active component, the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, is assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division and stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

Current status of regimental elements 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment - active, assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division 2nd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment - inactive since 25 February 1991McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "2d Battalion, 9th Field Artillery". Field Artillery Part 1. (CMH Pub 60-11-1(Part 1)). Army Lineage Series. United States Army Center of Military History: Washington. 393. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015 <http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt1/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt1.pdf >. 3rd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment - inactive since 15 June 1996McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "3d Battalion, 9th Field Artillery". Field Artillery Part 1. (CMH Pub 60-11-1(Part 1)). Army Lineage Series. United States Army Center of Military History: Washington. 396. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015 <http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt1/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt1.pdf >. 4th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment - inactive since 15 August 1990McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "4th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery". Field Artillery Part 1. (CMH Pub 60-11-1(Part 1)). Army Lineage Series. United States Army Center of Military History: Washington. 398. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015 <http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt1/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt1.pdf >. 5th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment - inactive since 15 February 1963McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "5th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery". Field Artillery Part 1. (CMH Pub 60-11-1(Part 1)). Army Lineage Series. United States Army Center of Military History: Washington. 400. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015 <http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt1/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt1.pdf >. 6th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment - inactive since 1 October 1983McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "6th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery". Field Artillery Part 1. (CMH Pub 60-11-1(Part 1)). Army Lineage Series. United States Army Center of Military History: Washington. 402. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015 <http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt1/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt1.pdf >. 7th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment - inactive since 1 September 1995McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "7th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery". Field Artillery Part 1. (CMH Pub 60-11-1(Part 1)). Army Lineage Series. United States Army Center of Military History: Washington. 404. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015 <http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/060/60-11_pt1/CMH_Pub_60-11_pt1.pdf >.

History The 9th Field Artillery Regiment was formed from elements of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment in Hawaii in 1916. By 1919, the regiment was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The regiment was inactivated there on 1 September 1921.Clay, Steven E. The Arms: Cavalry, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery, 1919-41, vol. 2 of U.S. Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941 (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press), 708. Web. Accessed 18 October 2015. <>> Although the regimental headquarters was inactive from 1921 through 1927, the regiment's 1st Battalion was active from 1922 to 1927, with elements at Fort Des Moines, Iowa and Fort Riley, Kansas. Although inactive, the regiment was reassigned from the 7th Division to the 9th Division in 1927. The regiment was reorganized as a 75mm gun regiment in 1927 in the Seventh Corps Area, and Organized Reserve personnel assigned to the unit trained at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin in 1927 and at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1928–9. In 1930, the regiment was allotted to the Fourth Corps Area, reassigned from the 9th Division to the 4th Division, and changed into a motorized 155mm howitzer unit, but never organized in the Fourth Corps Area. The regiment's 1st Battalion was activated in 1930 at Fort Lewis, Washington. In 1933, the regiment was withdrawn from the Fourth Corps Area and allotted to the 9th Corps Area, and reassigned from the 4th Division to the 3rd Division. The regiment's 2nd Battalion was activated in 1939, joining the 1st Battalion at Fort Lewis. The 3rd Battalion was disbanded in 1939 (apparently without ever being organized). On 1 October 1940, the regiment was reorganized as the 9th Field Artillery Battalion as part of the Army's conversion to triangular divisions which eliminated field artillery regiments from the force structure in favor of independent battalions.

World War II The 9th Field Artillery Battalion departed Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 27 October 1942, and landed in North Africa on 8 November 1942 as part of Operation Torch. As the division artillery's 155mm general support unit, one battery of the battalion landed with each regimental landing group.Gray, John T., et al, "Operation Torch." Combat Studies Institute Battlebook 3-A. Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 58,85. Web, accessed 16 December 2017. <http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA151625>

In January 1944, the 9th FA was in Quiliano in Italy and later rest near Naples.

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Korea

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Further service by regimental elements

The 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment served with the 3rd Infantry Division from 1957 to 1971. The battalion was reactivated as a Pershing missile battalion in the 56th Field Artillery Command from 1986 to 1991. The battalion was reassigned to the 3rd Infantry Division and reactivated by reflagging the 3rd Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Stewart Georgia. The battalion has deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the Global War on Terror. The 2nd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment served with the 10th Infantry Division in Germany and at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1958 to 1960; with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks and in Vietnam from 1960 to 1967 and 1970–1972; with the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam and Fort Lewis, Washington, from 1967 to 1970. The battalion was reactivated as a Pershing missile battalion in the 56th Field Artillery Command from 1986 to 1991. The 3rd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment served in the Army Reserve's 83rd Infantry Division from 1959 to 1965 and at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, from 1971 to 1996. The 4th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment served in the Army Reserve's 79th Infantry Division from 1959 to 1963. The battalion was reactivated as a Pershing missile battalion in the 56th Field Artillery Command from 1986 to 1990. The 5th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment served in the Army Reserve's 96th Infantry Division from 1959 to 1963. The 6th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment served at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, from 1963 to 1983. The 7th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment served at Fort Irwin, California, and in Vietnam from 1966 to 1970, and with the Army Reserve in New York and Florida from 1971 to 1995.

Pershing

1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment The 56th Field Artillery Brigade in West Germany reorganized in January 1986 and was redesignated as the 56th Field Artillery Command. 1st Battalion, 81st Field Artillery Regiment was inactivated and reformed as 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment in Neu-Ulm. With the ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty on 27 May 1988 the missiles were destroyed and the battalion was inactivated on 30 June 1991.

Commanders 1986: Lt. Col. Herbert W. Reichert December 1988: Lt. Col. Robert P. Shadburn 1989: Lt. Col. Stephen Seay

2nd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment The 56th Field Artillery Brigade in West Germany reorganized in January 1986 and was redesignated as the 56th Field Artillery Command. 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment was inactivated and reformed as 2nd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment in Schwäbisch Gmünd. With the ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty on 27 May 1988 the missiles were destroyed and the battalion was inactivated on 25 February 1991.

Commanders 1986: Lt. Col. David E. Bonner December 1988: Lt. Col. Michael J. Pasquarett

3rd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment The 2nd Missile Battalion, 44th Artillery Regiment was activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, as the first Pershing missile unit under the 9th Field Artillery Missile Group. On 1 September 1971 it was inactivated and reformed as the 3rd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment. As the only Pershing field artillery unit in the continental United States, their mission was to test new equipment and procedures, support the Field Artillery School, support missile firings at White Sands Missile Range and the off-range launch sites and at Cape Canaveral. On 5 July 1979, the 3 missile battalions of the 9th Field Artillery Missile Group were reassigned to the 214th Field Artillery Group, which was redesignated as the 214th Field Artillery Brigade on 16 September 1979. With the ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty on 27 May 1988 the missiles were destroyed and the battalion was inactivated on 15 June 1996.

Commanders: 1985: Lt. Col L. Kirk Lewis 1986: Lt. Col Jeffrey L. Wishik 1988: Lt. Col Eugene A. McKenzie

4th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment The 56th Field Artillery Brigade in West Germany reorganized in January 1986 and was redesignated as the 56th Field Artillery Command. 3rd Battalion, 84th Field Artillery Regiment was inactivated and reformed as 4th Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment in Heilbronn. With the ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty on 27 May 1988 the missiles were destroyed and the battalion was inactivated on 15 August 1990.

Commanders 1986: Lt. Col. Douglas E. Taylor December 1988: Lt. Col. Frank L. Varsolona

Lineage and honors

Lineage Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 9th Field Artillery Organized 6 August 1916 at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii Inactivated 1 September 1921 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (1st and 2d Battalions activated 1 October 1922 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, respectively; 2d Battalion inactivated 31 December 1922 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma) Assigned 24 March 1923 to the 7th Division Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 9th Division (1st Battalion consolidated 15 September 1927 with the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery, and consolidated unit designated as the 2d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery - hereafter separate lineage; new 1st Battalion concurrently constituted) Relieved 1 January 1930 from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 4th Division (3d Battalion concurrently constituted) (1st Battalion activated 30 April 1930 at Fort Lewis, Washington) Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 4th Division and assigned to the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division) (2d Battalion activated 1 May-12 October 1939 at Fort Lewis, Washington) Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 9th Field Artillery Battalion Relieved 1 September 1950 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Reassigned 17 January 1951 to the 3d Infantry Division